one hundred dollar misunderstanding

**College sophomore J.C. Holland, fortified by his father's simplistic traditionalism, enters a house of ill-repute to meet Kitty, a 14-year-old prostitute. Sort of ashamed to be there, but feeling the need for the kind of educational complement such a place can provide, young J.C. flashes a gift from his aunt, a hundred dollar bill, to Kitty, who's just sure that's only the first dividend of her "investment". Misunderstanding from them both abounds, along with a funny and insightful tour of the hypocrisy underpinning modern morality.** **A college sophomore spends a weekend with a pretty 14-year-old black prostitute under the manly misapprehension that she has invited him because she finds him irresistible. Outraged when her guest resists payment, Kitten steals her rightful $100 fee, and the hi-jinks begins.** **Published 45 years ago, this book deals mainly with issues of sexuality as it relates to class and race, privilege and poverty in the southern United States. Jim is a white college sophomore in a Southern college on a Friday night with a hundred dollars in his pocket. Kitten is a 14-year old African-American prostitute. Their paths cross as Jim visits a "Negro house of ill repute."** **The book proceeds with Jim and Kitten narrating alternate chapters.** Each sees the other as an answer to their needs and their encounter builds into a weekend of misunderstandings as their different backgrounds and expectations keep them from ever having meaningful communication. Yet, despite the insurmountable cultural chasm that separates them, their determination eventually makes small inroads possible. **This book made history at the time because of the frank discussion of sexuality and racial differences. Today, the terminology seems remarkably tame, even quaint. Yet the issues raised about sexual morality and class privilege are as relevant as ever.** Gore Vidal said: "There is always a division between what a society does and what it says it does, and what it feels about what it says it does. But nowhere is this conflict more vividly revealed than in the American middle class's attitude toward sex, that continuing pleasure and sometimes duty we have, with the genius of true pioneers, managed to tie in knots. **Robert Gover unties no knots but he shows them plain and I hope this book will be read by every adolescent in the country, which is most of the population."** **To truly appreciate this story it is important to remember that it is fiction. No 14 year o

שנה

1961

שפה

English

הוצאה

Penguin Random House

מהדורות

3

ISBN

9780099171300

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