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Adventures in the Alaskan Skin Trade

by John Hawkes · 1985

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As the proprietor of Gamelands, the best little whorehouse in Alaska, beautiful and athletic Sunny Deauville is dedicated to a life of guilt-free hedonism. Yet she is haunted by dreams of her long-lost father, "Uncle Jake," a gentleman adventurer who dragged his family off to Alaska after the Crash of 1929. Each night as he returns to her dreams, Sunny relives the vivid episodes of her childhood.

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This powerful, humorous, and hauntingly beautiful book is at once an Alaskan tall tale and a psychological thriller of stunning insight and depth.

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adult
Length
long · 400 pages

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