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This is an extremely gritty version of Sex and the City, in which the sex is always debauched and the city is Liverpool. Nineteen-year-old university student Millie O'Reilley has not taken the news of the impending nuptials of her best mate, 28-year-old Jamie Keeley, very well. Drinking and drugging her way through the evenings, she usually ends up trolling the seedy section of town in search of female prostitutes (the "brass" of the title). Jamie is growing increasingly impatient with and worried by Millie's behavior and is at a loss to explain their relationship to his dim-witted, social-climbing fiancee. What sets this first novel apart within a burgeoning subgenre is Walsh's lyrical prose. Her evocative phrasing both contains and stands in direct contrast to incredibly graphic scenes of depravity, and the result is both disturbing and compelling. Although the rationale finally revealed for Millie's behavior is wholly conventional, nothing else about this novel is ordinary. The depiction of predatory female sexual behavior is, at times, shockingly edgy, and the prose is never less than exquisite. Joanne Wilkinson
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Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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"Helen Walsh's first novel, Brass...has the best--as in the most honestly and evocatively described...sex of any contemporary fictious sex I've read....You forget how rare it is to find a heroine who acts the predator and not the victim, who gets to make the jokes rather than feed the lines to the joker."
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When I started reading this book, I thought I knew what brass means. how wrong could I be. and it took me some time to figure it out.
besides that, I have learned some other English with it. although I am far from understanding everything, and my dictionary doesn't help much. it is not explicit or specific enough to get all the f-words and other phrases translated.
the one thing I can say is, that, if it is true that Helen Walsh is not mad about sex, as she recently told the "Süddeutsche Zeitung", this is the closest you can get to being mad about sex without being mad about sex. and I also will not believe that this book does not carry some autobiography or self experience in it. for sure it takes a good deal of research to write about the Liverpool red light district like this, but could this be enough to write like this? at least some little bit of autobiography as well as some small(?) piece of self experience have to be in this book. how else could somebody describe a scene so real without having been there, but all from imagination and fantasy?
although I didn't do it, this could have been the first book in my life which I could have read in one piece, and I just wished I could start reading "brass, part II: Jamie and Millie" TODAY ...
besides that, I have learned some other English with it. although I am far from understanding everything, and my dictionary doesn't help much. it is not explicit or specific enough to get all the f-words and other phrases translated.
the one thing I can say is, that, if it is true that Helen Walsh is not mad about sex, as she recently told the "Süddeutsche Zeitung", this is the closest you can get to being mad about sex without being mad about sex. and I also will not believe that this book does not carry some autobiography or self experience in it. for sure it takes a good deal of research to write about the Liverpool red light district like this, but could this be enough to write like this? at least some little bit of autobiography as well as some small(?) piece of self experience have to be in this book. how else could somebody describe a scene so real without having been there, but all from imagination and fantasy?
although I didn't do it, this could have been the first book in my life which I could have read in one piece, and I just wished I could start reading "brass, part II: Jamie and Millie" TODAY ...
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Also. Ich befinde mich in einem kleinen Zwiespalt...Brass war bis auf das Ende eines der besten Bücher, welche ich je gelesen habe. Aber eben bis auf das Ende, das war platt und ich hätte mir gewünscht, dass das Buch um dieses Ende früher aufgehört hätte...
Aber ansonsten ein sehr sehr gutes Buch.
Aber ansonsten ein sehr sehr gutes Buch.
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Perverse, Raw and Entertaining
2. Februar 2005
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Having received this book for Christmas, I was immediately intrigued by the back cover description and I read this book voraciously until I was finished. It is a brilliant effort by Walsh, full of interesting dialogue, English slang and perverse sexual descriptions. Being American I wasn't used to all of the working class slang but it can be deciphered on context and it is written phonetically. It's like Trainspotting in its raw and visceral feel. Thoroughly entertaining and a little autobiographical I can assume by the acknowledgements. It is totally a guilty pleasure with some of Milli's explicit dialogue and perverse desires. This is not for the prudish at heart. Recommended for all of the sexually and chemically adventurous... Looking forward to Walsh's next effort!
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Disturbing, graphic, and sexually depraved
25. August 2006
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This is a striking book; it's very disturbing, erotic, depraved, and dark.
Millie's story is startling, sexually depraved, frenetic, and self destructive. Once her mother leaves her father and her to fend for themselves, it all changes dramatically for her. She shuts down and lives in her thoughts, hating everything and everyone. She loses herself and runs away from reality every chance she gets and she cannot stop herself, she just cannot stop.
She learns that she is gay when she finds a pornographic magazine on her best buddy's room, she checks the pictures of a couple of women together and it changes everything for her forever.
She needs depravity to get turned on and she looks for filthy corners and hookers, she looks for women perched on window sills doing nothing, just waiting for the men that are used to paying for sex; they are waiting to sell their bodies and their souls, and Millie loves it, she loves the depravity of it all and craves for it as much as she craves for cocaine, ecstasy and the love of Jamie, her best buddy.
This is a story of a girl who grows up too fast once her mother is gone and who has no limits set to her, she can do as she pleases, she can stay the night wherever she wants and she is throwing away her chance at a career. She is blowing everything away.
Raw, a story of queer predilections, bad choices, and the descent into a life of hedonism, loneliness, and dark days with darker nights; I can only recommend it to those who like ruthless books, crude awakenings and profound stories, there is nothing shallow or superficial about this book and I liked it for that, it's real, unpleasant, and unashamed.
Millie's story is startling, sexually depraved, frenetic, and self destructive. Once her mother leaves her father and her to fend for themselves, it all changes dramatically for her. She shuts down and lives in her thoughts, hating everything and everyone. She loses herself and runs away from reality every chance she gets and she cannot stop herself, she just cannot stop.
She learns that she is gay when she finds a pornographic magazine on her best buddy's room, she checks the pictures of a couple of women together and it changes everything for her forever.
She needs depravity to get turned on and she looks for filthy corners and hookers, she looks for women perched on window sills doing nothing, just waiting for the men that are used to paying for sex; they are waiting to sell their bodies and their souls, and Millie loves it, she loves the depravity of it all and craves for it as much as she craves for cocaine, ecstasy and the love of Jamie, her best buddy.
This is a story of a girl who grows up too fast once her mother is gone and who has no limits set to her, she can do as she pleases, she can stay the night wherever she wants and she is throwing away her chance at a career. She is blowing everything away.
Raw, a story of queer predilections, bad choices, and the descent into a life of hedonism, loneliness, and dark days with darker nights; I can only recommend it to those who like ruthless books, crude awakenings and profound stories, there is nothing shallow or superficial about this book and I liked it for that, it's real, unpleasant, and unashamed.
5 von 6 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
A real downer
30. April 2005
Format:Taschenbuch
When I started to read this it had a certain optimism. The heroine, nineteen year old Millie, who is from a well educated millieu, is at university but doesn't care much for her studies. Her reaction to the splitting up of her parents has obviously tipped her into chaos and she reacts to this by befriending a gang of working class Liverpudlean lads and their families. She seeks a warmth that is lacking in her own family. And so far, this is commendable, but unfortunately this does not solve any of her problems. Apart from a pretty serious coke and E habit she indulges in what can only be described as seriously deranged sexual practices and is constantly compelled to sleep with prostitutes and on one occasion to stay at a prostitute's house in order to insert bottles into various orifices.
After a while of such hard core events you'd think the reader would become numb, but no. I felt more and more sick, and this is certainly credit to the author, but I just felt so sorry for Millie, I really did, and I just felt there wasn't much hope for her. Let me say, Walsh is a brilliant writer, her descriptions are so real they make you totally get under Millie's skin, but by the same token, the hyper-reality of her style swiftly made me nauseous. This is like A Clockwork Orange but far more real and while I have the feeling it will become some kind of literary classic, I'm afraid that all in all it was too rich for my stomach.
After a while of such hard core events you'd think the reader would become numb, but no. I felt more and more sick, and this is certainly credit to the author, but I just felt so sorry for Millie, I really did, and I just felt there wasn't much hope for her. Let me say, Walsh is a brilliant writer, her descriptions are so real they make you totally get under Millie's skin, but by the same token, the hyper-reality of her style swiftly made me nauseous. This is like A Clockwork Orange but far more real and while I have the feeling it will become some kind of literary classic, I'm afraid that all in all it was too rich for my stomach.
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