Child No More: A Memoir
by Xaviera Hollander
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Author: Xaviera HollanderEdition: Hardcover
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Published: 2002-06-01
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 320
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Summary: 4 Stars
In this autobiography, the 'Happy Hooker' tells without any inhibition her non-hooker life story.
It centres on her fascination with her extrovert womanizing father ( a surgeon) and her more difficult relationship with her introvert mother, a former model.
Her extremely vigorous sexual energy, as well as that of her parents, flows continuously in all directions.
Another returning theme is the universal sexual Phariseism which she encounters all over the world.
This sometimes too exhaustive book paints a quite exemplary destiny of a well-to-do European family: the privileged bright sunshine of colonisation, defeat and a difficult adaptation to a changed European lifestyle after World War II.
Although some chapters will only be really appreciated by the Dutch, this book is, all in all, a worth-while read.
Summary of Child No More: A Memoir
In the bestselling The Happy Hooker and subsequent books, XavieraHollander became famous for her unforgettably candid and racy stories of life as a New York madam catering to a sophisticated international clientele during the 1960s and 70s. Yet this remarkable woman's sexual escapades form only a part of her own remarkable life story - a story she reveals for the first time in the pages of this literary memoir, Child No More. It was a life begun in terror: Two months after her birth, young Xaviera de Vries and her mother were confined in a prison camp during the WWII Japanese occupation of Indonesia; her father, a doctor, was imprisoned in another camp. Two years later, summoned to treat a sick child, he operated on his own daughter without realising her identity. But that story is just the start of an extraordinary memoir in which she traces her own life - and sexuality - as it was influenced by the example of her parents: her father, a dapper and witty Jewish psychologist and intellectual, her mother the gorgeous daughter of conventional German parents, and a target of Nazi emnity for her association with a Jew. With breathtaking -but entirely characteristic - frankness, Xaviera revisits how her parents' own tempestuous relationship (and her father's licentious lifestyle) shaped her own life story. As she chronicles her eventual departure for New York, her entree into the world of prostitution, and her years of international celebrity, she reveals for the first time how her parents' lives continued to entwine with her own, as she endured years of separation from her father, and even stood by her mother as she entered a fulfilling lesbian relationship in the last years of her life. Told in the utterly frank and unquenchably inquisitive voice that marks all her work - yet from an entirely new and ultimately more honest perspective - Child No More recounts a surprising and ultimately uplifting "voyage of discovery through three lives."Book Subjects
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