Author: Xaviera Hollander
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ISBN: 9780426168034
Category : Sex
Languages : en
Pages : 365

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Author: Xaviera Hollander
Publisher: Warner Books (NY)
ISBN: 9780446363792
Category : Prostitutes
Languages : en
Pages : 365

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 876

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Author: Xaviera Hollander
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062116606
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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In the bestselling The Happy Hooker and subsequent books, Xaviera Hollander became famous for her unforgettably candid and racy stories of life as a New York madam catering to a sophisticated international clientele during the 1960s and 70s. Yet this remarkable woman's sexual escapades form only a part of her own remarkable life story—a story she reveals for the first time in the pages of this literary memoir, Child No More. It was a life begun in terror: Two months after her birth, young Xaviera de Vries and her mother were confined in a prison camp during the WWII Japanese occupation of Indonesia; her father, a doctor, was imprisoned in another camp. Two years later, summoned to treat a sick child, he operated on his own daughter without realizing her identity. But that story is just the start of an extraordinary memoir in which she traces her own life—and sexuality—as it was influenced by the example of her parents: her father, a dapper and witty Jewish psychologist and intellectual, her mother the gorgeous daughter of conventional German parents, and a target of Nazi enmity for her association with a Jew. With breathtaking but entirely characteristic—frankness, Xaviera revisits how her parents' own tempestuous relationship (and her father's licentious lifestyle) shaped her own life story. As she chronicles her eventual departure for New York, her entree into the world of prostitution, and her years of international celebrity, she reveals for the first time how her parents' lives continued to entwine with her own, as she endured years of separation from her father, and even stood by her mother as she entered a fulfilling lesbian relationship in the last years of her life. Told in the utterly frank and unquenchably inquisitive voice that marks all her work—yet from an entirely new and ultimately more honest perspective—Child No More recounts a surprising and ultimately uplifting "voyage of discovery through three lives."

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Languages : en
Pages : 92

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New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1154

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Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
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Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1450

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Author: Jacobsen's Publishers
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Category : Censorship
Languages : en
Pages : 550

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Category : Publishers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1446

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Author: Myles Hollander
Publisher: Warner Books (NY)
ISBN: 9780446916615
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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