Dirty White Boy: Tales of Soho | 
enlarge | Author: Clayton Littlewood Publisher: Cleis Press Category: Book
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Media: Paperback Edition: FICTGE Number Of Items: 1 Pages: 350 Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6 Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5 x 0.9
ISBN: 1573443301 Dewey Decimal Number: 381.10866420942132 EAN: 9781573443302 ASIN: 1573443301
Publication Date: October 1, 2008 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Shipping: International shipping available Condition: Brand New, Perfect Condition, Please allow 4-14 business days for delivery. 100% Money Back Guarantee, Over 1,000,000 customers served.
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Product Description An insider's view of life in Soho, the sex-and-entertainment center of London What is the correct etiquette for visiting a brothel? How should one react when a transsexual wants to show off her latest surgery? Is it appropriate to speak to television personalities when they're buying underwear? These are the questions that matter in London's Soho neighborhood, where Clayton Littlewood runs the cult clothing store Dirty White Boy. From his window on one of the busiest street corners in the world, Littlewood watches the daily parade of fashion queens, prostitutes, gangsters, and celebrities that make up the population of this strangest of villages. Dirty White Boy is a vivid mosaic of modern London, caught between the ghosts of the past and the uncertainties of the future. With an unforgettable cast of characters ranging from Chico the camp queen to Pam the Fag Lady (with guest spots by stars like Kathy Griffin and Graham Norton), these compulsively readable true tales offer a wry panorama of Soho's rich and often raucous subcultures.
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Soho's underbelly fully exposed! December 21, 2008 I had read many of this blogger's stories online at MySpace, but having them all assembled for consumption as fast as I could handle them is so much more wonderful. Clayton has an incisive style that relies on deft wording over shock value. His characters are as palpable as any I have ever read about, without actually knowing the persons he shares with us. Something tells me I would instantly recognize Pam the fag lady, Sebastian, Leslie and Charlie were I to run into them somewhere. He's made them that familiar to me in his storytelling!
I have it on good authority that a second book is in the works, and I'm itching to get my hands on it as well!
Soho Stories September 29, 2008 2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Littlewood, Clayton. "Dirty White Boy: Tales of Soho", Cleis, 2008.
Soho Stories
Amos Lassen
Clayton Littlewood lives in Soho, an interesting section of London and owns a shop called "Dirty White Boy" near one of the busiest street corners in the world. Soho is almost like our own Greenwich Village and has one of the most unique populations in the area and it seems that the people that live and visit there are a microcosm of everyone else. Littlewood writes of modern London but looks backwards at the past as well as forward to the future. The stories are populated with a fascinating cast of characters that reflect Soho's unique subculture. Littlewood looks at some interesting cultural situations including flattery and etiquette, when to speak and to whom and about what. Littlewood has a wonderful style filled with witticisms. I am not crazy about short stories but these all held my interest.
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