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" That night I lay in bed, thinking about what it would be like to walk into a strange room the next day and have sex with a strange man, for money. I had already slept with a number of men I hadn't cared for, for the company or the pleasure or as a favor or just because we were both there. What was so different about this, I wondered. The money, of course, the 'great equalizer,' as someone called it."   -- an excerpt This autobiography reveals the unusual personality of a highly intelligent woman -- who since the age of twenty-seven has combined middle-class life with prostitution. Dolores French has worked at a whorehouse in Puerto Rico, where she was paid $20 for fifteen minutes, and she has worked as a courtesan, flying to New York City for a weekend and earning $2,000. "The job is the same, and I am the same. Only the money is different." " I was raised to be a good girl; I became a prosititute. The jury is still out on whether or not I will go to heaven. In the meantime, I go out late at night, dressed in five-inch heels, and see clients. When I walked out of the middle class and into prostitution, in the public's eye, I was losing a lot. But, by crossing that line, I had a great deal to gain." What she gained and what she lost, how she works, where and why, are told in totally candid detail. We see Dolores French as a paid courtesan, as a streetwalker, as a B-girl, a call girl, even working in the windows in the red light district and at a brothel in Amsterdam. Working reveals a world, a group of clients, and a humorous way of thinking about prostitution that most of us could never imagine. " Shocking, controversial and enlightening."      -- Books " She was just doing her job."      -- Mayor Andrew Young " The first book I have read which manages to be frank, funny and utterly unprurient about sex ... An engrossing guide to human nature, by an expert."      -- Deborah Moggach's Pick of the Year, Sunday Times " She deserves full credit for her frankness, resilience and some great tips."      -- Time Out " Her memoirs are as witty as they are shocking."      -- Jeanette Winterson, author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit "The most notorious prostitute in America ..."      -- Atlanta Journal-Constitution If you're interested in obtaining an autographed copy directly from Dolores French herself, you may contact her via email at doloresfrench@gmail.com