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Girl, Undressed : On Stripping in New York City

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A young British woman-broke and out of luck-does battle with Manhattan's underworld of dancers, drugs, and the sex industry Ruth Fowler is a twenty-five-year-old Brit with a Cambridge degree and a middle-class background who arrives in New York City with dreams of becoming a journalist. But getting a work visa in post-9/11 America proves to be tricky. It doesn't take long for funds and incentive to run out-sending Fowler to the heart of Manhattan's dark underbelly of strip clubs and the sex trade, where as her alter ego "Mimi" she works as a dancer for more than two years. Both raw and shocking, Girl, Undressed tells the harrowing story of her descent into darkness, the young and wealthy Eton-educated Englishman with whom she perilously falls in love, and her revelatory journey back to herself.

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780143115656
  • ISBN-10: 0143115650
  • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
  • Publish Date: May 2009
  • Dimensions: 7.78 x 5.04 x 0.52 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.4 pounds
  • Page Count: 272
  • Reading Level: Ages 18-UP

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