A Woman Alone at Night

by Tamara Faith Berger

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Mira's sexual awakening is dark, fast, and demeaning -- starting with amateur porn, she willingly enters the harsh world of sex work. But Mira soon becomes conflicted: the other girls resent her and the men are rough. As her cousin tries to rescue her, Mira slips deeper and deeper into whoredom. Woman Alone at Night is striking for its intense, authentic evocation of the female sexual psyche. An explicit, intimate read, it's a book with the potential to forever change readers' understanding show more of sexuality. show less

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This uncompromising page turner full of vivid language and lucid narrative is a feverish supplication to the sacred whore that elevates pornography to the the spiritual realm. It's literary gifts make it more than simple smut, but it's still dirty enough to make you blush.

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Canonical title
A Woman Alone at Night
Alternate titles
The Way of the Whore

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Genres
Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
DDC/MDS
813Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English
LCC
PR9199.4 .B47 .W39Language and LiteratureEnglishEnglish LiteratureEnglish literature: Provincial, local, etc.
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Languages
English
Media
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