The surreal life and bizarre times of a college-educated career
call girl. A brave new look at the oldest profession, A Roaring
Girl is, without a doubt, the most unusual book of its kind ever
written. Part edgy, x-rated memoir; part sex-positive,
pro-prostitution polemic, H. A. Carson's 400-plus page interview
with an anonymous "escort" known as "The Thinking Man's Hooker," is
an unflinchingly honest presentation of one woman's professional
life and Weltanshaung in all its sordid/surreal, gonzo/glamorous
glory. From start to finish, the book is, much like the subject
herself, intelligent, outrageous, relentlessly "in your face," and
utterly unique. A Roaring Girl presents a prostitute who is neither
gilded angel nor fallen victim nor pseudo-sexy, "nymphomaniacal"
sophisticate. She is the sex worker as female outlaw/entrepreneur;
the prostitute as world-class iconoclast. Perhaps most intriguing
of all, A Roaring Girl lays bare the surreal world of pay-for-play
psychopathia sexualis with humor and compassion as well as the
unflinchingly analytical insight of a "happy hooker" swapping
stories with Kinsey or Havelock Ellis. Raw, irreverent, visceral,
disturbing, and funny, A Roaring Girl is, above all, a "roaring"
good read It is astonishingly literate, unabashedly erotic;
flawlessly analytical; shockingly explicit, and surprisingly (and
often darkly) humorous. Carson's mystery woman turns a phrase as
effortlessly and as expertly as she formerly turned tricks.
Whatever else can be said of her, the whore can write. A Roaring
Girl is a revolutionary work. It is also fascinating, You will try,
unsuccessfully, to put it down.
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