Going Down (Virago V S.)

Going Down (Virago V S.)

by JenniferBelle (Author)

Synopsis

Bennington is nineteen, a sharp, unshockable drama student who, when the cash flow runs low, sees no harm in a little out of hours escort work to fund her course. The world she moves in, where homeless friends sleep in an empty swimming pool, her Dad is a drunk and an ex-flatmate steals from his lover, has little to offer. So one vacation, left in an empty halls of residence at NY University, Bennington meets her madam and gets down to business, not forgetting to buy her first Louis Vuitton bag on the way. Unforgettable for her whimsical tone, amusing details and dead pan honesty: 'Afterwards I always say, 'You've got a great body' or if there's no way that's plausible, 'I love your moustache'. Sometimes I just say, 'Nice apartment' '. A funny, fresh and bittersweet debut.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
Edition: New e.
Publisher: Virago
Published: 04 Jun 1998

ISBN 10: 1860494587
ISBN 13: 9781860494581
Book Overview: * GOING DOWN will feature in a series of advertorials promoting the Virago 'V' list in SHE magazine * Part of the generic Virago 'V' promotion for 1998 which will include posters, bookmarks, mixed dumpbins plus a custom GOING DOWN dumpbin with Virago 'V' header * A natural for summer reading and key trade promotions * Review coverage expected in summer round-ups * Reading copies available

Media Reviews
This is a quirky, astute and often funny depiction of prostitution as the bored fiscal transaction that it really is GUARDIAN A witty, gritty and thoroughly convincing first novel NICK HORNBY Delightfully, sickeningly, hilariously enthralling TAMA JANOWITZ Infinitely worth reading QUENTIN CRISP
Author Bio
Twenty-seven-year-old Jennifer Belle is editor of the literary magazine, MUDFISH. This is her first novel. She lives in New York.