Debbie Doesn't Do It Anymore by Walter Mosley (2014, Hardcover)

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Title : Debbie Doesn't Do It Anymore: A Novel. Binding : hardcover. Condition : New. Mosley, Walter. Item ID : QQ240221038. Location : UA1-3/22.

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In this scorching, mournful, often explicit, and never less than moving literary novel by the famed creator of the Easy Rawlins series, Debbie Dare, a black porn queen, has to come to terms with her sordid life in the adult entertainment industry after her tomcatting husband dies in a hot tub. Electrocuted. With another woman in there with him. Debbie decides she just isn't going to "do it anymore." But executing her exit strategy from the porn world is a wrenching and far from simple process. Millions of men (and no doubt many women) have watched famed black porn queen Debbie Dare--she of the blond wig and blue contacts-"do it" on television and computer screens every which way with every combination of partners the mind of man can imagine. But one day an unexpected and thunderous on-set orgasm catches Debbie unawares, and when she returns to the mansion she shares with her husband, insatiable former porn star and "film producer" Theon Pinkney, she discovers that he's died in a case of hot tub electrocution, "auditioning" an aspiring "starlet." Burdened with massive debts that her husband incurred, and which various L.A. heavies want to collect on, Debbie must reckon with a life spent in the peculiar subculture of the pornography industry and her estrangement from her family and the child she had to give up. She's done with porn, but her options for what might come next include the possibility of suicide. Debbie . . . is a portrait of a ransacked but resilient soul in search of salvation and a cure for grief.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0385526180
ISBN-13
9780385526180
eBay Product ID (ePID)
170142915

Product Key Features

Book Title
Debbie Doesn't Do It Anymore
Author
Walter Mosley
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Urban, Contemporary Women, Literary, African American / Urban
Publication Year
2014
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
272 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8.6in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
5.8in
Item Weight
14.3 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Ps3563.O88456d43
Reviews
Praise for DEBBIE DOESN'T DO IT ANYMORE : "In most of his 42 books, the much-admired Mosley has given us desperate characters constantly tested by circumstances and fate. Until now, none of his other series or stand-alones have come close to matching the kudos that have been showered on the Rawlins series. But Debbie's on stage now, and her brutally elegant story and its shocking conclusion will stun you." -- Chicago Tribune "This could be the best thing Mosley has written in years, a deeply affecting story of a woman whose determination to pull herself out of one life and into another is tested almost to its limits by things she can't control--until she finds a way to control them...[Mosley is] back at the top of his game here." -- Booklist , starred review "The premise is jarring, yet Mosley is able to pain a picture of ordinary people. He shows the humanity of the characters despite their flaws." -- Library Journal "Prolific novelist Mosley ( Little Green , 2013, etc.) fielded his fair share of criticism for his X-rated one-two punch of Killing Johnny Fry (2006) and Diablerie (2007), and readers attracted to the equally explicit nature of this novel might be expecting more of the same. In truth, readers are likely to be more surprised by the depth of protagonist Sandra Peel, whom the author treats with tremendous compassion... A well-told redemption song about the most unlikely of heroines." -- Kirkus "... Debbie is an elemental creation in Mosely's canon, a strong female character with an impeccable voice." -- Publishers Weekly, Praise for DEBBIE DOESN'T DO IT ANYMORE: "This could be the best thing Mosley has written in years, a deeply affecting story of a woman whose determination to pull herself out of one life and into another is tested almost to its limits by things she can't control--until she finds a way to control them...[Mosley is] back at the top of his game here." --Booklist, starred review, Praise for DEBBIE DOESN'T DO IT ANYMORE : "This could be the best thing Mosley has written in years, a deeply affecting story of a woman whose determination to pull herself out of one life and into another is tested almost to its limits by things she can't control--until she finds a way to control them...[Mosley is] back at the top of his game here." -- Booklist , starred review "The premise is jarring, yet Mosley is able to pain a picture of ordinary people. He shows the humanity of the characters despite their flaws." -- Library Journal
Copyright Date
2014
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2013-021700
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Dewey Edition
23