Fresh Girls & Other Stories

by Evelyn Lau

Book Overview

A collection of stories by the author of the critically acclaimed Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid draws on her shocking, seductive memories of the dark underside of life to probe the lives of women on the edge of society, sexuality, and sanity.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786860588
• ISBN13: 9780786860586
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: Hyperion Books
• Length: 109 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Raw and fascinating

This writer worked as a Vancouver prostitute while she shaped her career as a professional writer. A journey through the eyes of a young girl with so many dreams. Evelyn Lau's writing resembles an artist picking the perfect colors for a painting. Beautifully written, poetic and surreal and yet the subject matter is gruesome, humiliating and real.

a new favorite.

I first became aware of Evelyn Lau after reading an excerpt of Fresh Girls on a website, and I loved it. I ordered the book immediately. All the stories in it are written with such a real quality to them. She makes things seem intensely beautiful, no matter what. She makes you see the beauty in something with her words and the way she uses them. "Mercy" is by far, my favorite story in this.

A page turner, I loved it.

this was such a great book. I first saw this book at a friends house and proceeded to pick it up. I was drawn in, and couldn't put it down. I had trouble finding it, but I odered it and It took me a few hours to read it from start to finish. I can't tell you how wonderful and exiting it was to read about someone who has a liking for s and m and related material. I found that I really related to this book, especially for someone who deals with depression every day. Lau is a great writer and I plan on buying all of her books. Highly reccommended, but as a warning, it does contain explcit material.