Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven
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- ISBN13: 9780446696937
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
“This is riveting stuff . . . unputdownable.”
–O, The Oprah Magazine
In 1986, Susan Jane Gilman and a classmate embarked on a bold trek around the globe starting in the People’s Republic of China. At that point, China had been open to independent backpackers for roughly ten minutes. Armed only with the collected works of Nietzsche and Linda Goodman’s Like Signs, the two friends plunged into the dusty streets of Shanghai. Unsurprisingly, they quickly establish themselves in over their heads–hungry, disoriented, stripped of everything familiar, and under constant government scrutiny. Soon, they started to unravel–one physically, the additional psychologically. As their journey became increasingly upsetting, they establish themselves facing crises that Susan didn’t reflect they’d survive. But by summoning strengths she never knew she had–and with help from unexpected friends–the two travelers establish their way out of a Chinese heart of darkness.
UNDRESS ME IN THE TEMPLE OF HEAVEN is a flat-out page-turner, an astonishing right tale of naïveté, friendship, and redemption told with Susan’s trademark compassion and humor.
Amazon.com Review
Amazon Best of the Month, March 2009: While this latest memoir from Susan Jane Gilman (ex- Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress) appears to be a saucy account of international sexcapades, it quickly reveals its whip-smarts, sucking you into a tale that brilliantly captures the “ecstatic terror” of gleefully leaping from your comfort zone–and finding yourself in freefall. It’s 1986, and newly minted ivy league grads Susy and her friend Claire have never left the U.S. when (inspired by a “Pancakes of Many Nations” promotion during a drunken night at IHOP) they hatch a plot to circle the world, starting in China, which has just opened to tourists. From the moment of arrival, they’re out of their depth, perpetually hungry, foolish, and paranoid from relentless observation. Claire, who carries the perfect works of Nietzsche “like a Gideon Bible,” seems more capable than Susy until encounters with military police, hallucinatory fevers, and a frantic escape from a squalid hospital expose cracks in her psyche that utterly ruin their plans. Rich with insight, dead-on dialogue, and canny characterization, Gilman’s personal tale nails that cataclysmic crash of idealism and reality that so regularly characterizes young adulthood. Be prepared to wolf down the final hundred pages in one sitting. –Mari Malcolm
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I do not recommend this book at all if you’re looking for an appealing travel memoir. I reviewed the book on my blog, The Mindful Tourist – check it out here: http://mindfultourist.com/2009/04/04/remove your clothes-me-in-the-temple-of-heaven-the-mindful-tourist-book-review/
Warning – there are spoilers in my review.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This was an simple transaction and I got my book in less than a week!
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
a bath after reading this. “Remove your clothes Me” was indeed an appropriate choice of title for this book since the leader, a self-proclaimed nymphomaniac, seemed distant with coupling. This was rumor has it that her main reason for wanting to see the world, sorry to say for her she succeeded but twice. As for her writing, I can best clarify it as “labored”. I was curious to see how her traveling companion descended into lunacy and establish the leader’s description both touching and sad. Still, the thought of traveling the world to expose yourself to the dangers of sexual immorality were repugnant to me. Tsk.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
NYC princesses, go wild in China (1983) and throw a fit.
Place a name else to clean up their mess.
Just go to her website and save yourself twenty dollars and wasting your time.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
The unrealistic attitude of trust fund babies gets tested in a very real place with predictable rssults.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5