{"product_id":"a-roaring-girl-h-a-carson-9781449080891","title":"A Roaring Girl: An Interview with the Thinking Man's Hooker","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e H. A. Carson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1449080898\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781449080891\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Authorhouse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/04\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 504\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.12d","brand":"H. A. Carson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48439184359679,"sku":"9781449080891","price":20.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fc405728-5b3a-4cf2-bceb-c44640d3ac98.jpg?v=1777176006","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-roaring-girl-h-a-carson-9781449080891","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}