In My Skin (eBook)

A Memoir of Addiction

Kate Holden (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2011
304 Seiten
Arcade Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-62872-205-5 (ISBN)

Infos

This is the frank, harrowing, and true story of one young womans descent into addiction and prostitution, and the long arduous struggle to reclaim her life. A shy, bookish college graduate, a nice girl from a solid middle-class home but uncertain of her way in life, Kate Holden tried her first hit of heroin as a one-time experimentan adventure with friendsbut the drug took over. Hooked, she lost her job and her apartment, and she stole from her family. Desperation drove her onto the streets, where she became Lucy, offering her body for cash to the first car to stop, risking arrest and, worse, the human predatorsanything for her next fix. With her name on the police blotter, she eventually left the streets and offered her services to a high-class brothel. There she discovered hidden strengths, as well as parts of herself that frightened her. Throughout, however hurt and dismayed, her family never abandoned her, and their acceptance and unyielding love helped her defeat the drug and leave her netherworld behind. In taut, devastating prose, Kate Holden recounts her journey with an emotional honesty and genuineness that will leave no reader untouched.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.10.2011
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sucht / Drogen
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Neurologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Addicted • aka lucy • belle de • blowjobs • books on blowjobs books on • books on call girls • books on clients • books on drug addictions • books on drug addicts • books on endless loops • books on middle classes • books on middle-classes • books on secret worlds • books on sex trades • books on sunday dinners • books on war memoirs • books on workers • brothels • Business Information • buy drugs • buy gifts • buying gifts • Call Girl • Candid • Cash • Clients • deadbeat • dealer pimp • debut memoir • Desperation • dope sick • Drug Addiction • Drug addicts • drug habit • endless loop • failed attempts • family stand • fleeced • Frontier • Grunting • harrowing • heroin addict • heroin addiction • high-class • johns • journal-constitution • Kilda • london call • lucy spends • luke davies • Melbourne • Melbourne Australia • methadone program • middle class • Middle-Class • odd sort • planner • professing dieing • Prostitutes • Prostitution • Recovery • Rehab • Rent • secret world • Sex trade • Sex Workers • suburbs • Sunday Dinner • True story • unflinching • university graduates • uplifting • wait hours • war memoirs • whim • Worker
• ISBN-10: 1-62872-205-3 / 1628722053
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62872-205-5 / 9781628722055