Author: Colleen Curra
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: novel, whores
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2005-05-10
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 1400079950
ISBN-13: 9781400079957
The girls of Sacred Heart Holy Angels eye the good dancers at the all-ages club Metropolis. They waste afternoons at the mall, check out parties on the lake, burn through candid, casual sex.Everybody calls them the Whores on the Hill, but they don’t care.It is the mid-’80s and they go to the last all-girls’ school in Milwaukee, where innocence is scarce and happiness is something to grabbed at in the backseat of a fast car.Meet exuberant, uninhibited Astrid, her nervy, troubled friend Juli and Thisbe, the shy, ascetic newcomer. They are fifteen years old. And they believe the
Author: Charles Busch
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
Keywords: atlantis, lost, whores
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2005-04-10
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0786715219
ISBN-13: 9780786715213
In this madcap novel, Drama Desk Award winner Charles Busch brings to the page the plot twists and flamboyant, appealing characters that made his Vampire Lesbians of Sodom one of the longest-running plays in Off-Broadway history. Set in downtown New York City, Whores of Lost Atlantis features Julian Young, a performer and playwright who tells the story of his acting troupe?s hilarious struggle to assemble an Off-Broadway production of Julian?s play, Whores of Lost Atlantis, in which Julian acts in drag. The novel?s unforgettable cast of characters includes Joel, a perfect English gentleman fro
Author: Elizabeth Pisani
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Keywords: business, aids, brothels, bureaucrats, whores, wisdom
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2009-09-21
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0393337650
ISBN-13: 9780393337655
??[A] rollicking, eye-opening, hilarious account of the underbelly of international AIDS research.???Carlin Romano, Philadelphia Inquirer As an epidemiologist researching AIDS, Elizabeth Pisani has been involved with international efforts to halt the disease for fourteen years. With swashbuckling wit, fierce honesty, and more than a little political incorrectness, she dishes on herself and her colleagues as they try to prod reluctant governments to fund HIV prevention for the people who need it most: drug injectors, gay men, sex workers, and johns. With verve and clarity, Pisani shows the
Author: Elizabeth Pisani
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: business, aids, brothels, bureaucrats, whores, wisdom
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2008-06-17
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0393066622
ISBN-13: 9780393066623
A flame-throwing epidemiologist talks about sex, drugs, and the mistakes (dismal), ideologies (vicious), and hopes (realistic) of international AIDS prevention. When people ask Elizabeth Pisani what she does for a living, she says, "sex and drugs." As an epidemiologist researching AIDS, she’s been involved with international efforts to halt the disease for fourteen years. With swashbuckling wit and fierce honesty, she dishes on herself and her colleagues as they try to prod reluctant governments to fund HIV prevention for the people who need it
Authors:Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Edith Grossma,
Publisher: Knopf
Keywords: whores, melancholy, memories
Number of Pages: 115
Published: 2005-10-25
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 140004460X
ISBN-13: 9781400044603
"The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin." So begins Memories of My Melancholy Whores, and it becomes even more unlikely as the novel unfolds. This slim volume contains the story of the sad life of an unnamed, only slightly talented Colombian journalist and teacher, never married, never in love, living in the crumbling family manse. He calls Rosa Cabarcas, madame of the city’s most successful brothel, to seek her assistance. Rosa tells him his wish is impossible--and then calls right back to say that she has found the p
Authors:Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Edith Grossma,
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: whores, melancholy, memories
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2006-11-14
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 1400095948
ISBN-13: 9781400095940
"The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin." So begins Memories of My Melancholy Whores, and it becomes even more unlikely as the novel unfolds. This slim volume contains the story of the sad life of an unnamed, only slightly talented Colombian journalist and teacher, never married, never in love, living in the crumbling family manse. He calls Rosa Cabarcas, madame of the city’s most successful brothel, to seek her assistance. Rosa tells him his wish is impossible--and then calls right back to say that she has found the p
Author: Sarah Pomeroy
Publisher: Schocken
Keywords: classical, antiquity, women, slaves, whores, wives, goddesses
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1995-01-17
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 080521030X
ISBN-13: 9780805210309
"The first general treatment of women in the ancient world to reflect the critical insights of modern feminism. Though much debated, its position as the basic textbook on women’s history in Greece and Rome has hardly been challenged."--Mary Beard, Times Literary Supplement. Illustrations.
