Binding: Hardcover
Description: What does it take to succeed as a queer teenage Eastern European sex worker in the 1990s? Eleven inches and a ruthless attitude. Western Europe shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall: Two queer teens from Eastern Europe journey to Vienna then Zurich in search of a better life as sex workers. They couldn t be more different from each other. Milan aka Dianka a dreamy passive na f from Slovakia drifts haplessly from one abusive sugar daddy to the next whereas Michal a sanguine pleasure - seeker from Poland quickly masters the selfishness and ruthlessness that allow him to succeed in the wild capitalist West all the while taking advantage of the physical endowment for which he is dubbed Eleven - Inch. By turns impoverished and flush with their earnings the two traverse a precarious new world of hustler bars public toilets and nights spent sleeping in train stations and parks or in the opulent homes of their wealthy clients. With campy wit and sensuous humor Michal Witkowski explores in Eleven - Inch the transition from Soviet - style communism to neoliberal capitalism in Europe through the experiences of the most marginalized: destitute queers.
Title: Eleven - Inch
Author(s): Witkowski Michal
Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd
Barcode: 9780857428912
Pages: 304 Pages
Publication Date: 12/6/2021
Series: The Pride List
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction