The Old Prostitute And Other Stories

Author : Manisha Roy
Publisher : Chiron Publications
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781685030933

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The Old Prostitute and Other Stories by Manisha Roy Pdf

The stories of this collection were written over a span of several decades beginning in 1985 and ending in 2022. A few of them were translated by Manisha Roy from her mother tongue, Bengali. Despite the geographical and other contextual differences, the narrative shifted and at times translated itself as if the author traveled easily between different landscapes—both external and internal. Roy’s academic training as a cultural anthropologist and later professional training in Analytical Psychology no doubt left undeniable influence in her wandering in the fascinating world of fictional imagination. Nearly half of the stories are short—an experiment attempted with the genre of flash fiction. However, the strength and charm of the narrative are not affected by the choice of the experiment. Like her translation Roy is able to transcend such structural issues of creating fiction. Readers will find reading these stories a new and unique experience.

Author : Tyler Stoddard Smith
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781440538537

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Whore Stories by Tyler Stoddard Smith Pdf

A Working History of Working Girls (and Guys) Have you ever wondered how Heidi Fleiss came to be the face of upscale prostitution or if Casanova really was the world's greatest lover? How about why Latin playboy Rubi Rubirosa got the nickname "The Ding Dong Daddy"? Anything but judgmental, Whore Stories sheds light on one of our more stigmatized icons: The Prostitute. Featuring the true stories of famous streetwalkers, call girls, rent boys, and go-go dancers, this book offers a revealing look at the men and women who have blazed the bawdy trail of prostitution since the dawn of time. While you may think that you know everything about this occupation, Whore Stories includes plenty of details and even celebrities, such as Maya Angelou and Bob Dylan, that will leave you in awe. From private schools and child preachers to mime fantasies and unfortunate amputations, this book uncovers the truth behind the world's oldest profession.

Author : Jagannātha Prasāda Dāsa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015037428599

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The Prostitute and Other Stories by Jagannātha Prasāda Dāsa Pdf

Author : Linda Wolfe
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781497637047

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The Professor and the Prostitute by Linda Wolfe Pdf

Acclaimed true-crime journalist Linda Wolfe presents the chilling case of a college professor who bludgeoned to death the prostitute he loved—plus eight other true stories that expose the psychological forces that drive seemingly respectable people to commit violent, unexpected crimes A professor at Tufts University School of Medicine, a suburban husband, and father of three, William Douglas secretly frequented Boston’s Combat Zone, a world of pimps, pushers, and porn shops. One night in 1982 he met twenty-year-old prostitute and former art student Robin Benedict, with whom he began a torrid affair that would end in murder. With the revealing psychological insights that made her previous books such riveting character studies, Wolfe depicts the catastrophic results of Douglas’s living out his secret love fantasies and the complex police investigation that brought the professor to justice. Among the eight shorter true-crime stories included in this volume is the case of the notorious Marcus twins, Manhattan gynecologists and drug addicts who were found dead together in an Upper East Side apartment. Wolfe also takes readers into the gay and transsexual clubs of 1980s New York for a twisted story of love and murder, and to the Texas suburbs, where a privileged fourteen-year-old boy takes a semiautomatic to his parents one sweltering July morning.

Author : Leverett Butts
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781105863066

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Emily's Stitches: The Confessions of Thomas Calloway and Other Stories by Leverett Butts Pdf

Emily's Stitches: The Confessions of Thomas Calloway is a collection of interrelated short stories about a teenaged boy growing up in rural Georgia and faced with the challenges of approaching adulthood. When he stumbles across a young homeless girl, he must decide how best to protect her from the world despite the fact that he barely understands the world himself. Also included in this collection are five other short stories and three poems including ""Requiem,"" an authorized sequel of sorts to Scott Thompson's novel Young Men Shall See. Other notable selections include ""Negative Space,"" which tells the story of a recently divorced photographer who finds himself sharing Thanksgiving dinner with his ex-wife's family; ""Gods for Sale, Cheap,"" a humorous examination of the commercialization of American religion; and ""Misdirection,"" the story of two down-on-their-luck hitmen and their quest for identity.

Author : Shel Weissman
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781546219811

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The Reunion at Heaven’S Gate and Other Stories by Shel Weissman Pdf

The Reunion at Heavens Gate and Other Stories continues in the examination of the collision and complexities of survival, redemption, and change. The author reveals the dark corners of characters and their immense desire to rise above what appears to be insurmountable odds. Their burdens are deep, yet their courage to triumph brings hope and revitalization. Weissman is an optimist and is revealed through the veil of his characters, which often appear in danger of losing it all. Their need to move forward becomes greater than the twisted circumstances they have difficulty relinquishing. The stories overflow with excitement, compassion, and truthfulness.

Author : Christopher A. Faraone,Laura K. McClure
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299213138

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Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World by Christopher A. Faraone,Laura K. McClure Pdf

Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World explores the implications of sex-for-pay across a broad span of time, from ancient Mesopotamia to the early Christian period. In ancient times, although they were socially marginal, prostitutes connected with almost every aspect of daily life. They sat in brothels and walked the streets; they paid taxes and set up dedications in religious sanctuaries; they appeared as characters—sometimes admirable, sometimes despicable—on the comic stage and in the law courts; they lived lavishly, consorting with famous poets and politicians; and they participated in otherwise all-male banquets and drinking parties, where they aroused jealousy among their anxious lovers. The chapters in this volume examine a wide variety of genres and sources, from legal and religious tracts to the genres of lyric poetry, love elegy, and comic drama to the graffiti scrawled on the walls of ancient Pompeii. These essays reflect the variety and vitality of the debates engendered by the last three decades of research by confronting the ambiguous terms for prostitution in ancient languages, the difficulty of distinguishing the prostitute from the woman who is merely promiscuous or adulterous, the question of whether sacred or temple prostitution actually existed in the ancient Near East and Greece, and the political and social implications of literary representations of prostitutes and courtesans.

Author : Roger Noble
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781470950361

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Painting the Souls of Men, and other stories by Roger Noble Pdf

The painter who fears his genius, the artist who reveals evil, the brother and sister whose grief reveals their differences, people living through revolutions and wars - and the truths they all continue to hide. This selection of short stories explores the mysteries of the human soul. Spanning centuries and set across continents, these intriguing pieces unpick the confusing web spun by our passion to be honest and true to ourselves - as we hide in the shadows of deception.

Author : Tikum Mbah Azonga
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789956558414

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Cup Man and Other Stories by Tikum Mbah Azonga Pdf

This is a collection of eight fictional short stories on themes such as the intrigues of the civil service, drunkenness, theft, matrimonial relations and living as an African immigrant in the West.

Author : Marc de Faoite
Publisher : Leopard Print
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Lime Pickled and Other Stories by Marc de Faoite Pdf

Equally nostalgic yet nightmarish, Lime Pickled is a short story collection set in a fictional Malaysia on the murky themes of exploitation, ecological damage, poverty, abuse and loss. Nefarious characters and the oppressed interact in modern Asia’s richly-textured familiar and amoral setting. At once dark and surreal yet heartwarming, this collection was written during the author’s 15-year stint in Malaysia and hits hard in many ways. Marc de Faoite’s gritty and satirical storytelling hints at traditional folklore with a brush of Zola’s detached naturalism. The initial primal shock cuts deep but these controversial and revealing stories of human longing and hope will stay with you for a long time. "A collection with an unmistakable heart." - Shih-Li Kow Read Lime Pickled and Other Stories today and discover new Asian writing.

Author : Carl R. Proffer,Ellendea Proffer
Publisher : Ann Arbor, Mich. : Ardis
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015013942381

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The Barsukov Triangle, The Two-toned Blonde & Other Stories by Carl R. Proffer,Ellendea Proffer Pdf

Author : Daniel Deardorff
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-08
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781644115695

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The Other Within by Daniel Deardorff Pdf

Reveals myth and “otherness” as keys to restoring self, nature, and society • Shows how myths contain medicine to restore wholeness amidst trauma, exile, sudden life change, disability, illness, death, or grief • Synthesizes lessons from shamanic practice, quantum physics, alchemy, soul poetry, wildness, social justice, and the author’s lived experience • Discloses the blessings of outsiderhood and the gifts and insights gained and contributed to culture by those who are marginalized and outcast There is an “other” that lives within each of us, an exiled part that carries wisdom needed for ourselves and the culture at large. Having survived disabling polio as an infant, Daniel Deardorff knows the oppressions of exclusion and outsiderhood. He guides readers on an initiatory journey through ancient myth, literature, and personal revelation to discover our own true identity. These 10,000-year-old stories contain sacred medicine with insights that release imagination and restore wholeness amid trauma, exile, climate chaos, disability, illness, death, and grief. Illustrating how archetypal figures of the Other--the Trickster, Daimon, Not-I, etc.--hold paradox, Deardorff teaches us to reframe disparities of self/other, civilization/ wilderness, form/deformity and transform the experience of being outcast. Synthesizing lessons from shamanic practice, quantum physics, alchemy, social justice, and his own lived experience, Deardorff affirms the disruptive and transgressive forces that break through dogma, conventionality, and prejudice. He discloses blessings of outsiderhood and gifts to culture by those who are marginalized. Through mythmaking (mythopoesis), the experience of Otherness--cultural, racial, religious, sexual, physiognomic--becomes one of empowerment, a catalyst for human liberation.

Author : Sandra Hill
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781928215158

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UnSettled and other stories by Sandra Hill Pdf

There is a grand piano delivered to the wrong Sea Point address. There is Toby the dog whose casual disappearance leads to the discovery of a world as unlikely as a helpful man. There are Isabelle and Hester, both travelling on the same train, but moving in opposite directions. There are the school girls who smoke through Die Stem during a Republic Day Celebration. There is Adeela longing for OK Bazaars, Boxing Day, and groenboontjie bredie; Lilly who knows too little of her mothers past and Elizabeth who is desperate to shed hers. Who can say why Eleanor married the man she did, or why she took the long sea journey south? Who can say where Sues been, or who the vark lilies are for? Who believes it when told, Its for your own good? Whether drawn from the distance of history or located in contemporary Cape Town, these eight stories create a tender and luminous account of just how extraordinary the everyday life of women can be.

Author : Billy O'Callaghan
Publisher : Random House
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473558472

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The Boatman and Other Stories by Billy O'Callaghan Pdf

The breathtaking short story collection from the Costa-shortlisted Irish writer Three gunshots on the Irish border define the course of a young man's life; a writer clings fast to a star-crossed affair with a woman who has never been fully in his reach; a fisherman accustomed to hard labour rolls up his sleeves to dig a grave for his child; a pair of newly-weds embark on their first adventure, living wild on the deserted Beginish Island. Spanning a century and two continents - from the muddy fields of Ireland to a hotel room in Paris, a dingy bar in Segovia to an aeroplane bound for Taipei - these densely layered tales reveal the quiet heroism and gentle dignity of ordinary life. Ranging from the elegiac to the brutally confrontational, Billy O'Callaghan's stories explore the resilience of the human heart and its ability to keep beating even in the wake of grief, trauma and lost love. 'The best fiction I have read this year... Taut, subtle and moving, and brought off beautifully' John Banville, Best Books of 2020, Irish Times

Author : Sona Maniar
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781643249131

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Peasants at a Party and Other Stories by Sona Maniar Pdf

A pair of idle investment bankers gets caught up in an art hustle. A rising star gets backstabbed by her own mentor. An ambitious CEO pays a steep price for an unfortunate misstep. A London City banker finds himself writing scripts for Bollywood. Peasants at a Party is a collection of such fictional tales set in the UK, US and India where vicious politics, greed and lust intersect against a backdrop of the corporate world. Unmasking the shenanigans at play through her keen observation and imaginative storytelling, the author Sona Maniar brings her own experience of having lived and worked in six countries and takes us on an entertaining ride across the business landscape. With ups and downs and often a surprise twist at the end, the stories reveal the harshness beneath the apparent glamour and compel the reader to reflect, introspect and most importantly ask the question – Could this too happen in the workplace?