{"product_id":"9781449080914","title":"A Roaring Girl: An Interview with the Thinking Man's Hooker","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe surreal life and bizarre times of a college-educated career call girl.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA 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 \u003cem\u003eWeltanshaung\u003c\/em\u003e 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, \u003cu\u003eA\u003c\/u\u003e \u003cu\u003eRoaring Girl\u003c\/u\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Roaring Girl is a  revolutionary work. It is also fascinating,  You will try, unsuccessfully, to put it down. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AuthorHouse","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47128404361456,"sku":"9781449080914","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781449080914_p0.jpg?v=1763829058","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781449080914","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}