In a dying Florida town, a trivial clique lives in oblivion as natural disaster and lies consume them. Vanessa is a nihilistic hairdresser, coping with her parents' freak death. She dates Alex, a sellout painter, desperate for affection and relevance. Alex fucks Julie, a pill popper with a past. After a bizarre fire ruins an art gallery, they plan an extravagant party on a wasted barrier island in the Gulf of Mexico. As the party approaches, Vanessa's friends converge, hot for distraction from dysfunctional affairs, a hopeless economy, and the searing sun-until a rumor unravels everyone's...
In a dying Florida town, a trivial clique lives in oblivion as natural disaster and lies consume them. Vanessa is a nihilistic hairdresser, coping wit...
"The best work by anyone on prostitution ever, Rachel Moran's Paid For fuses the memoirist's lived poignancy with the philosopher's conceptual sophistication. The result is riveting, compelling, incontestable. Impossible to put down. This book provides all anyone needs to know about the reality of prostitution in moving, insightful prose that engages and disposes of every argument ever raised in its favor." --Catharine A. MacKinnon, law professor, University of Michigan and Harvard University
Born into a troubled family, Rachel Moran left home at the age of fourteen. Being homeless,...
"The best work by anyone on prostitution ever, Rachel Moran's Paid For fuses the memoirist's lived poignancy with the philosopher's conceptual soph...
