416 pages – 14 x 21 cm

“Marise” is the street-name of Vanessa — a devoted mother at home, and a responsible student at an Infirmary college course. In hotels or roadside motel rooms, however, Marise acts as a highly praised callgirl, whose beauty and special abilities — performed alone or as part of a duo — are creatively advertised in newspapers classified sections. In her diary, “Marise” speaks uninhibitedly about her gigs, her clients’ personal wickednesses, pimps, orgies, swing-houses and the life on the streets and nightclubs. At the same time, Vanessa also talks about her family life, her friends and lovers, the frustrations she went through because of the latter, and how did she end up in this sort of lifestyle. All this interspersed among the almost five thousand gigs she estimates having done.

Author: Vanessa de Oliveira