<p>In her megabestseller The Happy Hooker and subsequent books, Xaviera Hollander became the candid and racy chronicler of life as a high-class New York madam during the '60s and '70s. Yet her sexual escapades form only a part of Xaviera's remarkable life story -- a story she reveals for the first time in this fascinating and surprisingly uplifting literary memoir. Two months after her birth, Xaviera de Vries and her mother were confined in a prison camp during the WWII Japanese occupation of Indonesia, while her father was imprisoned in another camp. Now, Xaviera revisits her young parents and their world -- her father an intellectual Jewish psychologist and her mother the gorgeous daughter of conventional German parents. With breathtaking frankness, Xaviera paints a portrait of her parents' tempestuous relationship and how it shaped her life. And as she chronicles her entree into the world of prostitution, she reveals for the first time how her parents' lives continued to entwine with her own -- the romantic ideal of her father coloring her romantic life and her jealousy of her mother changing at last into a warm and abiding love.</p>

Child No More: A Memoir

Biographies & Memoirs

XAVIERA HOLLANDER

Community & Culture

Harpercollins

The Happy Hooker

Progressives and Prohibitionists: Texas Democrats in the Wilson Era (Volume 11) (Fred H. and Ella Mae Moore Texas History Reprint Series)

How did you first learn about sex? If you grew up in the 1970s, it may have been from a gleefully lusty tour guide named Xaviera HollanderIn the late 1960s -- that era of sexual chaos, when Playboy Clubs and love-ins were competing for national attention -- a beautiful, intelligent young Dutch secretary named Xaviera de Vries moved to New York, grew swiftly tired of her desk job . . . and soon became the most visible and glamorous madam the city had ever seen. As Xaviera Hollander, she published a shockingly candid account of her life behind the brothel door. The Happy Hooker shot straight to the top of the bestseller lists, sold more than fifteen million copies, and made this enterprising young woman an international phenomenon. Thirty years later, these delightfully explicit tales of the '60s and '70s swingers' scene -- including countless jaw-dropping stories of lesbianism, bondage, fetishism, and more -- remain as titillating as ever, charged with the mix of shrewd observation and uninhibited appetite that made Hollander an irresistible storyteller. The Happy Hooker is a classic: the world's greatest book on the world's oldest profession.

Happy Hooker

Diamond Books

Prisoner of the Firebird

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

HARPERCOLLINS,AUSTRALIA

Star Bks.

Xaviera!

Tandem

Letters to Hooker

WARNER PAPERBACK LIBRARY

Xaviera Goes Wild

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

WARNER BOOKS

Bell

Madame l'Ambassadrice

Granada Publishing Limited

Grafton Books

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