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Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid
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Avg. Rating:♥♥♥♥♥ List Price: $11.95
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I've read a good many non-fiction-autobiographies. This book is the most viscerial yet cerebral, poignant, vulnerably heart-wretching; Honest, courageous mind boggling work of artistic genius, I have ever come across.
A sheer out & out mind-bender. A work of transcendent catharsis & tragic emotional metamorphosis, from a phenomenal brilli... »
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Fresh Girls and Other Stories
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Avg. Rating:♥♥♥♥♥
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I didn't really find this book all that interesting and appealing, although it wasn't that badly written. Basically the stories deal with prostitution and sexuality, and are influenced by the author's own experiences as a child-prostitute. Her writing was a big thing on the Canadian literature scene a while back, her being relatively young when her f... »
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Fresh Girls and Other Stories
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Avg. Rating:♥♥♥♥♥
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This writer worked as a Vancouver prostitute while she shaped her career as a professional writer. A journey through the eyes of a young girl with so many dreams. Evelyn Lau's writing resembles an artist picking the perfect colors for a painting. Beautifully written, poetic and surreal and yet the subject matter is gruesome, humiliating and real.... »
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Other Women: A Novel
The reason I still have not changed my mind about Lau's talent even after long since she came out as a former runaway-a child hooker was her frightening g... »
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