Whores for Gloria
Subtitle: A Novel (Contemporary American Fiction)
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Published: February 1, 1994
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780140231571
First sentence: We all know the story of the whore who, finding her China white to be less and less reliable a friend no matter how much of it she injected into her arm, recalled in desperation the phrase "shooting the shit", and so filled the needle with her own watery excrement and pumped it in, producing magnificent abscesses.