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The Baroness Munchausen of sex.(autobiography of a prostitute)
Catherine Millet The Sexual Life Of Catherine M. Translated by Adriana Hunter. Grove Books, 224 pages, $23
On street corners a couple of hundred yards from where I write this, prostitutes stand in the hope, and no doubt the expectation, of passing trade. They look as if they had stepped straight from the work of Otto Dix or George Grosz: and they go straight from the age of fourteen, when they start their career, to the age of forty-nine, without appearing ever to have passed through the intervening years.
In like mysterious fashion, Catherine Millet, the author of this memoir of her sexual life that the Kirkus Review found both oddly charming and deeply ...
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