No man's land : a memoir
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Published
New York : Viking Penguin, 2008.
Format
Book
ISBN
9780670019397, 0670019399
Physical Desc
265 pages ; 22 cm
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Published
New York : Viking Penguin, 2008.
Language
English
ISBN
9780670019397, 0670019399
Notes
Description
Welsh-born, Cambridge-educated Fowler takes a cynical tone as she recreates her dizzying descent into New York's demimonde as a strip-club dancer. Assuming an alter ego she calls Mimi, a parasitical spirit, the author at age 26 arrived in New York to fill a void after graduating from Cambridge, then spent three years traveling around the world and working on boats as a chef. Back in Manhattan, she soon became one of the nameless crowd of undocumented workers, though white and educated, unable to secure paid work in her field of journalism and finally landing a job as a waitress at a midtown strip joint, Foxy's. But dancing was where the big money was, especially luring customers into the private Champagne Room, and, as Mimi, she proved a canny, quick learner of the booze-and-drugs grind as well as a loyal sounding board to the other girls of varying nationalities ...
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Autobiographies.
Case studies.
English -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
Fowler, Ruth.
Marginality, Social -- New York (State) -- New York -- Case studies.
New York (N.Y.) -- Biography.
New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- Case studies.
Sex industry -- New York (State) -- New York -- Employees -- Biography.
Sex industry -- Social aspects -- New York (State) -- New York -- Case studies.
Striptease -- Social aspects -- New York (State) -- New York -- Case studies.
Stripteasers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
Women -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
Case studies.
English -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
Fowler, Ruth.
Marginality, Social -- New York (State) -- New York -- Case studies.
New York (N.Y.) -- Biography.
New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- Case studies.
Sex industry -- New York (State) -- New York -- Employees -- Biography.
Sex industry -- Social aspects -- New York (State) -- New York -- Case studies.
Striptease -- Social aspects -- New York (State) -- New York -- Case studies.
Stripteasers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
Women -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Fowler, R. (2008). No man's land: a memoir . Viking Penguin.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Fowler, Ruth. 2008. No Man's Land: A Memoir. Viking Penguin.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Fowler, Ruth. No Man's Land: A Memoir Viking Penguin, 2008.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Fowler, Ruth. No Man's Land: A Memoir Viking Penguin, 2008.
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