(CAD) First Edition Small hardcover with dust jacket, charcoal grey bds, white spine, 110pp. 10 stories on the subject of prostitution. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the title page: "For kevin--/Great to see you again--/Evelyn Lau." Fine in complete Fine(-) Dj. (1.33 jm HOZ 403/b4 Size: 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

FRESH GIRLS AND OTHER STORIES (Inscribed copy)

Publisher

HarperCollins, Toronto

Publication Date

1993

Language

English

ISBN 10

0002240157

ISBN 13

9780002240154

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st.

Condition

Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Near Fine

Signed

Inscribed By Author.

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A collection of stories by the author of the critically acclaimed Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid draws on her shocking, seductive memories of the dark underside of life to probe the lives of women on the edge of society, sexuality, and sanity.

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The pursuit of pleasure through pain is a mystery to many, but Lau, in her stark and disturbing stories of sadomasochism and prostitution, makes it comprehensible, arousing our compassion in place of disgust. A Canadian, Lau translated her experiences as a teenage prostitute and drug addict into the best-selling Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid. Here she delves further into the rage and gnawing emotional hunger that lead men and women to violent sexual extremes. Lau's narrators are drained of all emotion except loneliness and the desire for the frisson of clarity that physical pain ignites. In one tale, a dominatrix changes from her work clothes, black leather and spikes, to white lace and pink ribbons only to suffer the humiliation of being jilted by her married lover. An 18-year-old lets a pill-pushing psychiatrist hurt her; two young women watch a flogging at an S&M club, another whips herself with a chain. Lau conjures this claustrophobic, visceral, and wrenchingly human realm with glass-clear eyes and a steady hand, and we reel with the terrible beauty of her vision. Donna Seaman

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