Prostitute Laundry
Published on 25. May 2023
Book
Hardback
384 pages
978-1-80081-583-4 (ISBN)
Description
A Stylist 'Non-fiction You Can't Miss' selection for 2023
This serial memoir follows Charlotte over the course of several years as she falls in and out of love, muses on the nature of sex work and the value of beauty, discovers hidden emotional complexities and contemplates leaving her profession. Growing out of a series of confessional letters sent by the author to a small but devoted mailing list, her candid, unstinting and sometimes heart-breaking meditations have gained thousands of subscribers and a cult status.
Prostitute Laundry is a deeply thoughtful book about sensuality, money, and identity - how those forces can break us, and how they can make us whole again. By turns philosophical, funny and explicit, this is an affecting, immediate account of one life lived to its fullest.
This serial memoir follows Charlotte over the course of several years as she falls in and out of love, muses on the nature of sex work and the value of beauty, discovers hidden emotional complexities and contemplates leaving her profession. Growing out of a series of confessional letters sent by the author to a small but devoted mailing list, her candid, unstinting and sometimes heart-breaking meditations have gained thousands of subscribers and a cult status.
Prostitute Laundry is a deeply thoughtful book about sensuality, money, and identity - how those forces can break us, and how they can make us whole again. By turns philosophical, funny and explicit, this is an affecting, immediate account of one life lived to its fullest.
Reviews / Votes
Shane narrates . . . in a kind of gentle, considered past tense that makes each missive read as if it has been very sagely composed by a writer who has lived 50 years since . . . That's exactly what Dickens had a talent for, too. * Guardian * Addictive, intimate . . . * Vice * [Prostitute Laundry] is so beautiful and so heartbreaking. It's a book that makes me feel a little less alone. * New York Times Books Podcast * Stunning writing ... everything from high end sex work to the emotional labour of long-term relationships for women -- Arifa Akbar, author of Consumed Fast and fascinating ... feels spontaneous and emotionally fresh on every page ... a delicious must-read book -- Katie Ward, author of Girl Reading Prostitute Laundry is full of such precise observations; Shane's voice is decisive even as her decisions and feelings remain open to change. -- Megan Marz * TLS *More details
Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Profile Books Ltd
Product notice
Trade binding
Dimensions
Height: 204 mm
Width: 133 mm
Thickness: 35 mm
Weight
426 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-80081-583-4 (9781800815834)
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Person
Charlotte Shane is a nonfiction author and essayist based in the USA. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times magazine, Harper's, Bookforum, the TLS, and elsewhere.