The Resource Gina in the floating world : a novel, Belle Brett
Gina in the floating world : a novel, Belle Brett
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Resource Information
The item Gina in the floating world : a novel, Belle Brett represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
- Summary
- A bank internship in Japan's booming 1981 economy is supposed to be twenty-three-year-old Dorothy Falwell's ticket into a prestigious international MBA program. But the internship is unpaid--so, to make ends meet, she accepts an evening job as a hostess in a rundown suburban bar, a far cry from the sensuous woodblock prints she's seen of old Tokyo's "floating world." Like her namesake, Dorothy hasn't planned on the detours she encounters in her own twisted version of Oz. Renamed Gina by her boss, she struggles with nightly indignities from customers and confusing advice from new friends. Then her internship crumbles and the suave but mysterious Mr. Tambuki offers help. How can she resist? With patience and the utmost respect for her opinions, Mr. Tambuki lures her into his exotic world of unorthodox Zen instruction, erotic art, and high-octane sex. Soon, bizarre sexual escapades with monks, salarymen, and gangsters begin to feel normal until one of her clients goes too far, and Dorothy realizes she's in over her head. But can she find her way back from this point of no return?
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 317 pages
- Isbn
- 9781631524073
- Label
- Gina in the floating world : a novel
- Title
- Gina in the floating world
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Belle Brett
- Subject
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- trueAmericans in Japan
- Bars (Drinking establishments)
- Bars (Drinking establishments) -- Fiction
- trueCulture shock
- trueErotic art
- Fiction
- Fiction
- trueJapan
- Japan -- Fiction
- trueLovers
- trueMen/women relations
- trueRich men
- trueSelf-discovery
- trueSexual attraction
- trueSexuality
- trueTwenties (Age)
- trueWomen college graduates
- Women graduate students
- Women graduate students -- Fiction
- trueZen Buddhism
- Japan
- trueAmerican people in Japan
- Americans
- Americans -- Japan -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- A bank internship in Japan's booming 1981 economy is supposed to be twenty-three-year-old Dorothy Falwell's ticket into a prestigious international MBA program. But the internship is unpaid--so, to make ends meet, she accepts an evening job as a hostess in a rundown suburban bar, a far cry from the sensuous woodblock prints she's seen of old Tokyo's "floating world." Like her namesake, Dorothy hasn't planned on the detours she encounters in her own twisted version of Oz. Renamed Gina by her boss, she struggles with nightly indignities from customers and confusing advice from new friends. Then her internship crumbles and the suave but mysterious Mr. Tambuki offers help. How can she resist? With patience and the utmost respect for her opinions, Mr. Tambuki lures her into his exotic world of unorthodox Zen instruction, erotic art, and high-octane sex. Soon, bizarre sexual escapades with monks, salarymen, and gangsters begin to feel normal until one of her clients goes too far, and Dorothy realizes she's in over her head. But can she find her way back from this point of no return?
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- 10734284
- Cataloging source
- SFR
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- Brett, Belle
- Dewey number
- [E]
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
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- True
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- Women graduate students
- Americans
- Bars (Drinking establishments)
- Japan
- Americans
- Bars (Drinking establishments)
- Women graduate students
- Japan
- Label
- Gina in the floating world : a novel, Belle Brett
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1053624668
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 317 pages
- Isbn
- 9781631524073
- Lccn
- 2018937081
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1053624668
- Label
- Gina in the floating world : a novel, Belle Brett
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1053624668
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 317 pages
- Isbn
- 9781631524073
- Lccn
- 2018937081
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1053624668
Subject
- trueAmericans in Japan
- Bars (Drinking establishments)
- Bars (Drinking establishments) -- Fiction
- trueCulture shock
- trueErotic art
- Fiction
- Fiction
- trueJapan
- Japan -- Fiction
- trueLovers
- trueMen/women relations
- trueRich men
- trueSelf-discovery
- trueSexual attraction
- trueSexuality
- trueTwenties (Age)
- trueWomen college graduates
- Women graduate students
- Women graduate students -- Fiction
- trueZen Buddhism
- Japan
- trueAmerican people in Japan
- Americans
- Americans -- Japan -- Fiction
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