Description: Lost Girls and Love Hotels by Dr Catherine Hanrahan Margaret is doing everything to forget home, and Tokyos nightlife teeming with intoxicants, pornography, and three-hour love hotels enables her to keep her demons at bay. An affair with a mysterious gangster could spell tragedy for her in a city where its all too easy to disappear. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Now a feature film starring Alexandra Daddario An achingly honest debut novel of memory, self-destruction, and relationships set in contemporary Tokyo Sometimes, when Im staring down a room of Japanese stewardesses-in-training, looking across a sea of shiny black coifs, a chorus line of stockinged legs, knees together, toes to the side, when Im chanting, "Sir, you are endangering yourself and other passengers!" I think I should have let my brother stab me . . .Margaret is doing everything in her power to forget home. And Tokyos red light district--teeming with intoxicants, pornography, and seedy love hotels--is almost enough to keep at bay memories of her brother Franks descent into schizophrenia. But sobriety brings the past flooding back, along with a pervasive fear that she, too, is destined to battle mental illness. Working as an English specialist at a training academy for Japanese stewardesses by day, and losing herself at night in drugs, alcohol, and S&M fueled sex in the arms of anonymous men, Margaret numbs her loneliness with self destruction, wondering when shell take things too far. And when she falls for a married man who is part of Tokyos illicit underworld, their relationship might finally force her hand. . . . Back Cover Margaret is doing everything in her power to forget home. And Tokyos exotic nightlife -- teeming with intoxicants, pornography, and three-hour love hotels -- enables her to keep her demons at bay. Working as an English specialist at Air-Pro Stewardess Training Institute by day, and losing herself in a sex- and drug-addled oblivion by night, Margaret represses memories of her painful childhood and her older brother Franks descent into madness. But Margarets deliberate nihilism is thrown off balance as she becomes increasingly haunted by images of a Western girl missing in Tokyo. And when she becomes enamored of Kazu, a mysterious gangster, their affair sparks a chain of events that could spell tragedy for Margaret, in a city where its all too easy to disappear. Author Biography Catherine Hanrahan s fiction has appeared in Zoetrope All-Story Extra and Open City. Born in Montreal, she has lived in Thailand, England, and Japan, where she worked as a bar hostess and English teacher. Review "Edgy, hip... This insider view of high-end Japanese youth culture is wicked and unsparing." -- Kirkus Reviews STARRED REVIEW"This ambitious first novel may blow a few of the book-and-brunch set out of their orientalist armchairs..." -- Toronto Globe and Mail"Hanrahan presents a Tokyo far from cherry blossoms and Zen temples...an admirable debut, sharp as a samurais sword." -- Calgary Herald"Catherine Hanrahans first novel, Lost Girls And Love Hotels, shows huge potential." -- Now Magazine (Canada)"Lost Girls and Love Hotels could almost be read as an alternative travel guide." -- Quill & Quire Review Quote "This ambitious first novel may blow a few of the book-and-brunch set out of their orientalist armchairs…" Details ISBN0060846844 Short Title LOST GIRLS & LOVE HOTELS Language English ISBN-10 0060846844 ISBN-13 9780060846848 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY FIC Year 2006 Series P. S. DOI 10.1604/9780060846848 Subtitle A Novel Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2006-07-03 NZ Release Date 2006-07-03 US Release Date 2006-07-03 UK Release Date 2006-07-03 Author Dr Catherine Hanrahan Pages 240 Publication Date 2006-07-03 Audience General Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc Imprint Collins Place of Publication New York Imprint US Harper Perennial Publisher US HarperCollins We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:12609327;
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