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The Lonely Trip Back
Este libro es una autobiografía, el título puede hacer pensar distintos tipos de situaciones, creo que no es tan acertado pues como es superación personal suena demasiado merol para lo que es realmente. La historia va contada cronológicamente en restrospectiva, va dirigido a cualquier tipo de persona, en especial a los que les guste leer autobiografías y superación personal. Los temas que aborda son drogadicción, prostutución, carcel, aborto, adicción y dependencia, claro entre otros como la incomunicación familiar, así podría seguir con la infinidad de temas que aborda.
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212 pages, Hardcover
First published April 1, 1971
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July 6, 2010The book that Jerry Blank from Strangers with Candy is based on. Best line: "Davy didn't make me a whore, I made him a pimp...a gold-plated pimp."
April 12, 2018
This was very entertaining until things started to go well for her. And although she's clearly a pathological liar, even a stopped clock is right twice a day. She's got some correct instincts about treating addiction in a non-punitive way...even if her prescription for it was to join a group called Synanon, which has sadly evolved from a drug rehabilitation treatment into a violent cult. (I laughed out loud typing that.) Twisted, hilarious shit like this is the through-line of Florrie's life.
As in she goes skinny-dipping high and almost drowns. Well, except she always kept her bra on, to defend her honor, I guess?
Or when she says she's a whore that turned her husband into a pimp..."a gold-plated pimp."
Or that she almost throws herself out a window because she's scared cops are barging down her door...even though the window to the fire escape is one window over.
Or that she bothers making a video with her husband's uncle to prove adultery for a New York divorce.
Or when she says crazy shit like "lezzies are born, but bulldykes are made."
There's a lot more lunacy-cum-comedy gold where that came from.
I would say check out her PSA (link below) and if you are entranced by her oddball lunacy, the book is rife with it. A very entertaining, unintentionally hilarious book until it turns, near the end, an exhausting, quasi-preachy, quasi-self-aggrandizing redemption narrative. But man oh man are the first 200 pages quite a roller-coaster ride.
This is so good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vd7o...
As in she goes skinny-dipping high and almost drowns. Well, except she always kept her bra on, to defend her honor, I guess?
Or when she says she's a whore that turned her husband into a pimp..."a gold-plated pimp."
Or that she almost throws herself out a window because she's scared cops are barging down her door...even though the window to the fire escape is one window over.
Or that she bothers making a video with her husband's uncle to prove adultery for a New York divorce.
Or when she says crazy shit like "lezzies are born, but bulldykes are made."
There's a lot more lunacy-cum-comedy gold where that came from.
I would say check out her PSA (link below) and if you are entranced by her oddball lunacy, the book is rife with it. A very entertaining, unintentionally hilarious book until it turns, near the end, an exhausting, quasi-preachy, quasi-self-aggrandizing redemption narrative. But man oh man are the first 200 pages quite a roller-coaster ride.
This is so good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vd7o...
August 11, 2014
I've been a Strangers with Candy / Amy Sedaris fan for years now, and had obtained a DVD bootleg copy of Florrie's Trip Back lecture after I read the Jerri Blank character was based on Florrie (I think you can watch the entire presentation is on YouTube now). This book is fantastic! Brutally honest Florrie reveals all about the seedy drug culture / street life of the 1940s/50s/early 60s that she was a part of in NYC and FL. The book is as blunt, if not more, than the Trip Back video. And even though it is meant to be a scare tactic to warn young people of the dangers of pot, "horse", etc., and is a very tragic at times, the book was also very entertaining. Reads quickly too. One of the dozens of gems from Florrie, when speaking about years of drug abuse and prostituting: "I was a two-bit whore. There wasn't an ounce of uptown call girl left in me. I was a cheap piece. If you can't do any better, there's always Florrie."
May 27, 2014
Amazing.
January 18, 2014
Este libro es una autobiografía, el título puede hacer pensar distintos tipos de situaciones, creo que no es tan acertado pues como es superación personal suena demasiado merol para lo que es realmente.
La historia va contada cronológicamente en restrospectiva, va dirigido a cualquier tipo de persona, en especial a los que les guste leer autobiografías y superación personal.
Los temas que aborda son drogadicción, prostutución, carcel, aborto, adicción y dependencia, claro entre otros como la incomunicación familiar, así podría seguir con la infinidad de temas que aborda.
El final esta totalmente aterrizado pues es la realidad, claro que pareciera que todo termina muy bien a pesar de ser una historia autobiográfica, pero por lo mismo no cuenta que en su muerte padecia de insuficiencia renal, cáncer en el hígado y murió de insuficiencia cardíaca.
La historia va contada cronológicamente en restrospectiva, va dirigido a cualquier tipo de persona, en especial a los que les guste leer autobiografías y superación personal.
Los temas que aborda son drogadicción, prostutución, carcel, aborto, adicción y dependencia, claro entre otros como la incomunicación familiar, así podría seguir con la infinidad de temas que aborda.
El final esta totalmente aterrizado pues es la realidad, claro que pareciera que todo termina muy bien a pesar de ser una historia autobiográfica, pero por lo mismo no cuenta que en su muerte padecia de insuficiencia renal, cáncer en el hígado y murió de insuficiencia cardíaca.
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