Floozy

By Jane Graham

When Lux the Poet and Alby Starvation, famed inhabitants of South London's least salubrious areas, find themselves thrown together, the fabric of the universe starts to crumble. The arrival of Ruby, with her plans for total domination of the squatting group, leads them into a fantastic (and quite upsetting) adventure featuring beautiful Goddesses, unhappy, plants, sad rocks, and a full scale assault on Nirvana.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1899866116
• ISBN13: 9781899866113
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Slab O Concrete
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.5" x 0.3" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

"I'm investing in a pair of sturdy knickers."

In real life, British author Jane Graham performs as a striptease artist named Minx Grill. "Floozy" is a collection of short stories reflecting some of Graham's experiences--both on and off stage. The stories are laced with wicked wit, and the most enjoyable stories are those that deal with Graham's stage performances. Graham describes gyrating on the stage, desperately hanging onto her underwear while trying not to dance too close to the ever-grabby audience. There is no glamour, no mystique--just an often fed-up woman trying to make a living, and get back home more or less unmolested. While she is the object of many an erotic fantasy, she remains bored and emotionally removed from all the panting and drooling that is generated by her performances. She deals with violence in the same manner she deals with the tips--she takes it and moves on. One particularly amusing story concerns a charity performance. The audience behaves dreadfully, but the event is a smashing success. While the subject matter is titillating, there's a serious side here. The author's sense of burnout and ennui is contagious. Her life is spent entertaining others with her body, and there's no enjoyment here--just a dark amusement at the ugly predictability of human nature. All too often, the evening ends with her exhausted with no way home--"It's been a long night. Two strippers, four topless waitresses and a fat comedian in a tuxedo." Graham dissects and analyzes the dark ugly side of human nature, and it's not pretty. After one evening she confesses, "You realize you're just skirting around the edges of this world." And after reading the story, we realise that she is indeed somehow moving through life never leaving the periphery. The language contained in the stories may be offensive to some, and perhaps the descriptions of some of the stage performances will prove shocking. Bear in mind this is a book written by a stripper about stripping. Also, the author uses some slang, which may prove a little difficult for the American reader. The slang, should not, however, ruin the book's readability--displacedhuman