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  • Published: 15 February 2015
  • ISBN: 9780767929646
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $32.99

Debbie Doesn't Do It Anymore

A Novel





Acclaimed crime writer Walter Mosley creates an electric female character, a porn star who must come to grips with her past in order to move forward into her future.

Millions of men and (no doubt many) women have watched famed black porn queen Debbie Dare—she of the blond wig and blue contacts—“do it” on television and computer screens in every combination of partners and positions imaginable. But after an unexpected and thunderous on-set orgasm catches her unawares, Debbie returns home to find her porn-producer husband dead, electrocuted in their hot tub in the midst of “auditioning” an aspiring young starlet.

Burdened with massive debt—incurred by her husband, and which various L.A. heavies want to collect on—Debbie must find a way to extricate herself from the peculiar subculture of the porn industry and reconcile herself to sacrifices she’s made along the way. In Debbie Doesn’t Do it Anymore, the creator of the Easy Rawlins series has painted a moving portrait of a resilient soul in search of salvation and a cure for grief.

  • Published: 15 February 2015
  • ISBN: 9780767929646
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $32.99

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Praise for Debbie Doesn't Do It Anymore

  • "Debbie Dare has the steely backbone to stand beside Rawlins, Fearless Jones and Socrates Fortlow in the pantheon of Mosley's signature characters." --Chicago Tribune
  • "This could be the best thing Mosley has written in years, a deeply affecting story of a woman whose determination to pull herself out of one life and into another is tested almost to its limits by things she can't control--until she finds a way to control them... [Mosley is] back at the top of his game here." --Booklist (starred review)
  • "Debbie is an elemental creation in Mosley's canon, a strong female character with an impeccable voice." --Publishers Weekly
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