Callgirl: Confessions of an Ivy League Lady of Pleasure
by Jeannette Angell
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Author: Jeannette AngellEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-04-01
ISBN: 0060736054
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
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Book Review: Two Worlds
Summary: 5 Stars
As a lecturer at a community college, I am not unfamiliar with the poverty of being a new teacher, so I suppose this is what initially attracted me to Dr. Angell's memoir. Her narrative moves swiftly from encounter to encounter -- a near rape one night, a strip tease another night -- interrupted by analytical details of her teaching subjects. One voice belongs to a woman I easily would have lunch with, perhaps discussing teaching strategies, and the other voice belongs to a woman living in a world I could never inahbit but neither could I imagine it accurately.
The two disparate, sometimes jarringly opposite, voices give a glimpse into what living a double life such as hers is like. Perhaps it is only her advanced education that allows her the comfort of separation between her two worlds. She rationalizes her choice to work as a callgirl as only a liberated academic feminist can. Hers was a concious choice, and even in the most degrading situations (as when "Abe" forces her to clean his apartment) she is able to detach from emotion, always seeing her night job as a business deal and never the degrading and demoralizing misogynistic acts of desperate men, which they most certainly are.
That she was able to enter and exit this profession without damage to her soul is not so much admirable as it is unbelievable. She is certainly not your average prostitute, or former prostitute as the case may be, but this fact does not make this any less an interesting read. I highly reccommend this book. You may well put the book down and honestly not know the answer to that blurb on the cover, which asks: "Given the same circumstances, would you make a different choice"? As a broke lecturer at a community college who routinely dodges bill collecters, I can see the temptation.
Summary of Callgirl: Confessions of an Ivy League Lady of Pleasure
Professor by day, callgirl by night ? a true storyJenny is left penniless by an ex-boyfriend and, in order to make ends meet, she finds herself juggling two lives - respected college-lecturer by day and $200-an-hour high class callgirl 'Tia' by night.Tia's clients range from the pitiful to the downright disturbing: there's the man obsessed with wearing her underwear, the client who wants her to pretend to be his mother and the punter who gets his kicks from inflicting pain. Tia is paid to fulfil all kinds of desires.Despite her madam's protection, Tia is drawn into a world of increasing danger, trying to dodge undercover cops, resist the temptation of drugs and, most of all, avoid falling in love with the wrong man.As Jenny juggles the twin roles of professor and prostitute, the eventual strain of keeping her life secret from friends and family forces her to re-examine everything - before her two worlds inevitably collide?Women Books
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