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Strip : A Memoir - Hannah Sward

Strip

A Memoir

By: Hannah Sward

Paperback | 6 September 2022

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Born in the bohemian seventies, Hannah Sward was abandoned by her mother, and lived with her poet father on an island with no stores or cars. Kidnapped and molested by a stranger at age six, she grew up to be a stripper and a prostitute with a taste for crystal meth—which seemed to be a sure-fire way to lose weight —with stops along the way for silent gurus, sugar daddies, and drinking in the CVS bathroom before therapy sessions. Painstakingly honest, often humorous, Strip is a heartfelt memoir revealing a woman’s journey from innocence to a dark existence, and beyond it to a world of empowerment.
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"... elegant prose, stripped of all sensationalism and demands for pity...a fresh, literary addition to the courageous and resonant addiction-memoir genre."

― Booklist


"Arresting, weighty, and visceral as hell, Hannah Sward's Strip is a crushing tale of physical, emotional, and spiritual survival."

― Melissa Broder, award-winning author of The Pisces, Milk Fed, and So Sad Today

 

“Hannah Sward's Strip catalogues a reckless, fast-paced life, one filled with terrible lows and memorable highs. It’s a vivid journey through troubled times, yet also a tale of resurrection and redemption, written in captivating, compelling, and beautiful prose. Sward pulls no punches and she never plays the victim. It’s a stunning book-one I highly recommend.”

― Rob Roberge, author of Liar and others

 

“Hannah Sward’s memoir of how she blundered into the sex industry is touchingly honest, and written with a light touch.”

― J. M. Coetzee, Nobel Prize in Literature, author of Disgrace and others

 

“Hannah Sward writes about the most intimate taboo things in a signature stark style. With a fleeting brusque description of a man’s mustache or his cologne, we are there with her, living every moment of this painful confusing journey as an escort. Sward’s writing lacks any self-pity or self-indulgent descriptions which highlight the emotional barrenness of her experience. Strip is a book you can’t put down. It’s shameless, descriptive, and keeps the reader hungry for the next line, which is what great writing does. Sward is a force to be reckoned with.”

― Amy Dresner, author of My Fair Junkie: A Memoir of Getting Dirty and Staying Clean, and columnist for The Fix

 

Strip is a story of loss and despair told with a buoyant, utterly seductive voice. Every line, every image Hannah Sward captures is original with her savage wit and the descriptive power she uses to place us in each scene of her bold, devastating adventure. Like a curious witty moth she flickers from the world of stripping, call girl, a menu of drugs and sugar daddies. She dives in, amuses and appalls us, and even in the pits she makes art of each moment. This is no ordinary recovery story. It’s a story that defies convention at every step. The writer never feels sorry for herself; she picks up her wit and what’s left of her clothes, and moves on to a triumphant end where she finds the full creative command of her heritage.”

― Jill Schary Robinson, award-winning author of Bed/Time/StoryWith a Cast of ThousandsPerdido and others

 

“Jaw-dropping talent. Hannah Sward is an astonishingly gifted writer whose poetry shines through every sentence. Her ability at depersonalizing herself and making herself into a tragic hero in Strip is dizzying. Bottom line is that she is a fine writer who will be heard from.”

― Ben Stein, lawyer, economist,

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