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Debbie Doesn't Do It Anymore

door Walter Mosley

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In this scorching, mournful, often explicit, and never less than moving literary novel by the famed creator of the Easy Rawlins series, Debbie Dare, a black porn queen, has to come to terms with her sordid life in the adult entertainment industry after her tomcatting husband dies in a hot tub. Electrocuted. With another woman in there with him. Debbie decides she just isn't going to "do it anymore." But executing her exit strategy from the porn world is a wrenching and far from simple process. 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 every which way with every combination of partners the mind of man can imagine. But one day an unexpected and thunderous on-set orgasm catches Debbie unawares, and when she returns to the mansion she shares with her husband, insatiable former porn star and "film producer" Theon Pinkney, she discovers that he's died in a case of hot tub electrocution, "auditioning" an aspiring "starlet." Burdened with massive debts that her husband incurred, and which various L.A. heavies want to collect on, Debbie must reckon with a life spent in the peculiar subculture of the pornography industry and her estrangement from her family and the child she had to give up. She's done with porn, but her options for what might come next include the possibility of suicide. Debbie . . . is a portrait of a ransacked but resilient soul in search of salvation and a cure for grief.… (meer)
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This was brutally beautiful.
It is not your usual novel, more a snapshot of how a person can react when their life gets turned upside down within a few minutes.
Mosley decided to forgo chapters which had the effect that he captured perfectly the aimless driving through the days, Debbie goes through after the death of her husband.
It is a stream of conciousness of what happened right at the moment, of how she got to this point through events in the past, of what the future might be.
But it is also a statement of that family is what you make out of it, that the people you feel the closest to are not those you are related to by blood but by the same kind of brokenes that you experience as well.

Mosey is really a master in writing broken and raw characters. Characters you might not feel any sympathy for at the beginning but the more the story unfolds the more you start to understand.
Debbie's / Sandy's outer shell is getting peeled back layer by layer, uncovering the deep pain and hopelessness, which made me feel for her very deeply.

The only minus point is the end, which feels a bit abrupt, not that a long drawn out explanation of what happened in the past year would have been better, but a nod to a few points would have been nice. Like did she cut everyone of her old life out or did she stay in contact with the few friends she had all that time.

Overall a touching read that makes you think not to judge people just by the outside, you never know what their story is by just looking at them. ( )
  Black-Lilly | Feb 1, 2024 |
This isn't my usual type of read but Bahni Turpin is narrating the audio which makes me want to give it a try.
  NCDonnas | Jan 2, 2021 |
This isn't my usual type of read but Bahni Turpin is narrating the audio which makes me want to give it a try.
  NCDonnas | Jan 2, 2021 |
come on Mr. Mosley--you can do better than this. ( )
  kerns222 | Aug 24, 2016 |
This book was different from what I'm used to by Mr. Mosley, and I liked the shift. In most of his books, there's an air of "Who Done It", and you have a main character trying to solve the mystery.

In Debbie Doesn't Do It Anymore, there is a death, but instead of solving the mystery this time, it focuses more on the survivor, and her rebirth—a chance for a new life and a fresh start. It doesn't have pulse-pounding action, but it the story flows well, and is easy to follow. I definitely liked it, and would recommend it to others. ( )
  Kiera_loves_books | Jan 18, 2016 |
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In this scorching, mournful, often explicit, and never less than moving literary novel by the famed creator of the Easy Rawlins series, Debbie Dare, a black porn queen, has to come to terms with her sordid life in the adult entertainment industry after her tomcatting husband dies in a hot tub. Electrocuted. With another woman in there with him. Debbie decides she just isn't going to "do it anymore." But executing her exit strategy from the porn world is a wrenching and far from simple process. 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 every which way with every combination of partners the mind of man can imagine. But one day an unexpected and thunderous on-set orgasm catches Debbie unawares, and when she returns to the mansion she shares with her husband, insatiable former porn star and "film producer" Theon Pinkney, she discovers that he's died in a case of hot tub electrocution, "auditioning" an aspiring "starlet." Burdened with massive debts that her husband incurred, and which various L.A. heavies want to collect on, Debbie must reckon with a life spent in the peculiar subculture of the pornography industry and her estrangement from her family and the child she had to give up. She's done with porn, but her options for what might come next include the possibility of suicide. Debbie . . . is a portrait of a ransacked but resilient soul in search of salvation and a cure for grief.

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