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Title: No Man's Land
Author: Ruth Fowler
Narrator: Ruth Fowler
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-08-09
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
With 43 countries, 12 boats, dozens of flights, a fistful of "life experience" behind her and a lot of ambition fueling her dreams, 25-year old Ruth Fowler arrives in New York City. A Brit with a Cambridge degree and a middle-class background, she doesn't think it will be too hard to start a new life. But getting a work visa in post-9/11 U.S.A. proves to be tricky, and to kick-start a writing career, Fowler starts documenting her experiences. She funds her efforts with cash-in-hand jobs and a stint writing for the Village Voice, but it doesn't take long for funds and hope to run out - sending her to the heart of Manhattan's dark underbelly, the strip clubs and "Champagne Rooms" of Times Square.
As "Mimi," she has a chance of survival. But when this persona threatens to consume every vestige of Fowler's identity, when her life spirals out of control and her true self remains so deeply buried that it seems impossible to resurrect, relying on "Mimi" seems like the biggest mistake she has ever made. No Man's Land is a shocking, raw account about losing identity - and finding it again.
Members Reviews:
bitter, honest, sometimes funny
Bitter account of stripping, but I like that the author was self-destructive and made no excuses or apolgies, which is rare in this age of self-pity memoirs. I've known a few strippers and this seemed to echo a lot of their complaints about the customers, the repetition and the difficulty of escaping it.
What do I think?
Interesting reading ... Took a while to get used to her writing style, then, I wanted to read her other book also!
"Dancer"
A chatty memoir about an English girl who after doing work on a boat ends up in NYC without the proper paperwork to obtain a visa to work in the United States. She does some waitressing and then ends up being a 'dancer'. She creates an alter ego which becomes Jekyll/Hyde-like as she begins a downward spiral of behavior in things that she had thought that she would not do. Initially whiney it does get more interesting as it goes along as she gets involved in a relationship that becomes heart-wrenching. Insight into the behaviors, swearing, adult content. Quality use of the language.
What One Would Expect
Ruth Fowler, thanks to her ability to write about the world with exactly the worldview that Christopher Lasch warned us would become more and more common, has managed to get published with some regularity In the last year or two. Just the other day I read her article about how that ex-cop running around LA and shooting civilians and policemen is, in her mind, some sort of dark hero out for justice. As I read, I thought maybe the Left had found its Ann Coulter. So, out of curiosity, I went into the stacks (I am a librarian) and picked up this book to take a look.
It's a very sad work by what appears to be a very sad person. The organization of the book is semi-coherent, kind of a brain-dead picaresque. Some flashes of real talent are here, but they aren't maintained for more than a sentence or two and seem inconsistent.
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Title: No Man's Land
Author: Ruth Fowler
Narrator: Ruth Fowler
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-08-09
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
With 43 countries, 12 boats, dozens of flights, a fistful of "life experience" behind her and a lot of ambition fueling her dreams, 25-year old Ruth Fowler arrives in New York City. A Brit with a Cambridge degree and a middle-class background, she doesn't think it will be too hard to start a new life. But getting a work visa in post-9/11 U.S.A. proves to be tricky, and to kick-start a writing career, Fowler starts documenting her experiences. She funds her efforts with cash-in-hand jobs and a stint writing for the Village Voice, but it doesn't take long for funds and hope to run out - sending her to the heart of Manhattan's dark underbelly, the strip clubs and "Champagne Rooms" of Times Square.
As "Mimi," she has a chance of survival. But when this persona threatens to consume every vestige of Fowler's identity, when her life spirals out of control and her true self remains so deeply buried that it seems impossible to resurrect, relying on "Mimi" seems like the biggest mistake she has ever made. No Man's Land is a shocking, raw account about losing identity - and finding it again.
Members Reviews:
bitter, honest, sometimes funny
Bitter account of stripping, but I like that the author was self-destructive and made no excuses or apolgies, which is rare in this age of self-pity memoirs. I've known a few strippers and this seemed to echo a lot of their complaints about the customers, the repetition and the difficulty of escaping it.
What do I think?
Interesting reading ... Took a while to get used to her writing style, then, I wanted to read her other book also!
"Dancer"
A chatty memoir about an English girl who after doing work on a boat ends up in NYC without the proper paperwork to obtain a visa to work in the United States. She does some waitressing and then ends up being a 'dancer'. She creates an alter ego which becomes Jekyll/Hyde-like as she begins a downward spiral of behavior in things that she had thought that she would not do. Initially whiney it does get more interesting as it goes along as she gets involved in a relationship that becomes heart-wrenching. Insight into the behaviors, swearing, adult content. Quality use of the language.
What One Would Expect
Ruth Fowler, thanks to her ability to write about the world with exactly the worldview that Christopher Lasch warned us would become more and more common, has managed to get published with some regularity In the last year or two. Just the other day I read her article about how that ex-cop running around LA and shooting civilians and policemen is, in her mind, some sort of dark hero out for justice. As I read, I thought maybe the Left had found its Ann Coulter. So, out of curiosity, I went into the stacks (I am a librarian) and picked up this book to take a look.
It's a very sad work by what appears to be a very sad person. The organization of the book is semi-coherent, kind of a brain-dead picaresque. Some flashes of real talent are here, but they aren't maintained for more than a sentence or two and seem inconsistent.