Smoking Hopes
Alexander, Victoria N.;Alexander, Victoria
Language: English
Published by Permanent Pr Pub Co, Sag Harbor, New York, U.S.A., 1996
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- Title
- Smoking Hopes
- Author
- Alexander, Victoria N.;Alexander, Victoria
- Publisher
- Permanent Pr Pub Co, Sag Harbor, New York, U.S.A.
- Publication year
- 1996
- Condition
- Near Fine+
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine+
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1877946699
- ISBN 13
- 9781877946691
- Edition
- First Edition/First Printing
- Seller catalogs
- MODERN FIRST EDITIONS
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From the Publisher
Sunday, February 11, 1996
'No trade deficit for Charlie: Hostess has her own import plan for rich Japanese swain'
Review By Clay Reyonds
'Hopes' is the name of a Japanese brand of cigarettes favored by the customers of Manhattan's Club Kiki, where the novel's narrator and main character, Charlie Dean, works. The men who come there enjoy the company of a rotating cadre of beautiful American women. The hostesses sit with them and light their Hopes in more ways than one. Neither Charlie . . . nor her co-hostesses are prostitutes. Indeed private liaisons with the clientele are strongly discouraged by the Mama-san, who runs the club with an iron hand. Nevertheless, many of the girls succumb to the temptation represented by the wealthy and free-spending Japanese, each of whom seems to want his own personal American mistress as a symbol of his status in the most status-conscious of all countries. Charlie herself succumbs, but she does so deliberately. She has ulterior motives. She plans a sea voyage to Japan to find her estranged husband, also her best friend's estranged lover, and to recapture him with her newly learned charms. Accordingly, she takes up with a foolish Japanese executive, Hiro, who becomes so enthralled with his tall American blonde beauty that he loses his reason and eventually much, much more. The most remarkable achievement of this often funny and highly sensual novel, though, is not the plot or setting, though both of these elements are handled with alacrity and grace. A dark comedy with cunning observations on society and culture, it avoids political correctness by employing a sometimes brutal honesty. But it is the character of Charlie Dean herself that makes this novel work. Few narrators in my experience have been presented with such uncompromising honesty, such deep and deliberate introspection. To understand the mind-set of women who work in such clubs, Ms. Alexander worked as a [hostess] in a Japanese men's club in Manhattan. She apparently was successful in her research, for Charlie emerges as a completely believeable product of 1990's femininity, a woman whose ultra-sensitivity is knitted through the narrative. Charlie tells her tale with integrity and intense circumspection, never apologizing for her proclivities, for her excesses . . . Although she is not moralistic, she does set hard standards for herself and guards against falling into the role of victim. . . Charlie is an intensely self-conscious character. She is constantly performing, if not for an audience of paying customers, then for people on the street, her neighbors in her almost surrealistic Manhattan neighborhood, 'Thirteenth Alley.' Smoking Hopes is a sometimes funny, sometimes reflective and ironic tale . . . I have no doubt that more, much more, will be heard from author Victoria N. Alexander.
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