Madam [Paperback]

Jeannette L. Angell (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 20, 2007

In her first memoir, Callgirl, Jeanette Angell led readers into the world of escort services, as she taught classes by day and works as a callgirl by night.

Now she introduces readers to another part of that world as she recounts the life of a madam, Peach, who runs a successful mid-level escort service in Boston. Told from Peach's point of view, Madam looks at all different facets of this life --from the need to run an efficient business to how she explains her career choice to others.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

The author of her own memoir about being a prostitute, Callgirl, Angell ventures a sympathetic biography of a woman known as Peach, the madam of the escort service Angell worked for. Writing Peach's story in the first person, Angell gets at the human side of the business, as Peach declares she is proud to employ gorgeous, gutsy girls with education and help them along their way in life. With some literary aspirations herself, and having worked first in sales and then as a receptionist for a Boston madam named Laura, Peach decides to open her own "out-call" business, Avanti, specializing in "vanilla sex and a chat." At first, she rarely has time to meet the girls she employs, but relies on their street smarts and status as students; instantly, her service catering to lonely middle-class clients takes off. The money is great, the parties fab, the drugs copious, and Peach even gains notoriety in the area, although some girls take advantage of her, burn out or even die of an overdose. Peach's upbringing as a Southern lady tempered her cynicism, she notes, and the early trauma of her father's death shaped her; though the Scarlett O'Hara act at disdaining vulgarity is unconvincing (money, for example, is seldom discussed). Angell sounds the happy businesswoman theme that running a prostitution ring is just a stepping stone to marriage and motherhood. (Jan.)
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Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Permanent Press (January 20, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1579621163
• ISBN-13: 978-1579621162
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,544,000 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Jeannette Angell is an award-winning author and playwright whose work has been published in 15 countries and translated into 12 languages.

She lives and works in an old sea captain's house in North Truro village, at the tip of Cape Cod.

"The outer cape is magical," she says. "I love to travel, but this is home. I can start my days in the woods or on the beach, I live surrounded by whales, seals, seabirds, and dolphins ... and with the literary legacy of those who lived here before me: Tennessee Williams, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Eugene O'Neill, John Dos Passos, Neith Boyce ... sometimes if I'm very quiet, I can hear their voices whispering in the dusk."

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