Bar Flower: My Decadently Destructive Days and Nights as a Tokyo Nightclub Hostess

Product ID: 246932

Release Date: 2008-04-15
Publication Date: 2008-04-15
Author(s):Lea Jacobson
Binding: Hardcover
Number of Pages: 352
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 0312368976
ISBN13: 9780312368975

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Weight	0.43 Kgs
Price:	HK$200.00

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During daylight hours, the city of Tokyo is the very image of robotic conformity. At night, however, it transforms into a â€œfloating worldâ€ of escapism, as â€œall-workâ€Â salarymen seek a place to play.Â

Though fascinated by Japanese language and culture, American Lea Jacobson had some difficulty conforming to Japanâ€™s rigidly structured society. After she was fired from her job as an English teacher, Lea found work as a nightclub hostess on Tokyoâ€™s Ginza strip and transformed herself into aÂ doll-like confection whose job it was to flatter, flirt, and engage in mock relationships with her middle-aged clients. Working as a hostessâ€”the occupation a direct descendant of the geisha traditionâ€”quickly became lucrative...and addictive.

Her perceptions distorted by the drinks sheÂ was paid to consume, her identity confused by the fake personalities she assumed nightly, Jacobson began to lose herself in this fantasy culture.Â Â AsÂ she descended into self-abuse and alcoholism, she found that the seductive lifestyle she loved so muchÂ seemed impossible toÂ escape.

Jacobsonâ€™s searing insights into Japanâ€™s cultural dynamics, erotic fascinations, gender politics, and her own spiral into sensory excess create a haunting and mesmerizing memoir that will leave readers transfixed.

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