The Last Living Slut
"Makes Pamela Des Barres' I'm With the Band read like a nun's diary in comparison. . . . The most gripping real-life account of female depravity we've ever read." —New York Times–bestselling authors Neil Strauss and Anthony Bozza, from their Introduction
Born in Tehran and raised within the strictures of Muslim religious culture, Roxana Shirazi's life changed when her family immigrated to London, fleeing the Iranian Revolution. Thrust into an uptight environment where she was racially bullied, she found refuge in the sounds of hard rock and heavy metal, becoming obsessed with living the sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll lifestyle that the music celebrated.
When not pursuing her Masters degree in English, Roxana was attending rock concerts, pursuing her favorite musicians and exploring her voracious sexuality. Partying with members of Guns N' Roses, Mötley Crüe, Velvet Revolver, and other bands past their 80s hair metal prime, she pushed herself and her rock star conquests to sexual extremes.
"Raw and
The Last Living Slut
Raw, Unvarnished, provocative, and poetically written, "The Last Living Slut: Born in Iran, Bred Backstage" is the memoir of Roxana Shirazi, who was raised during Iran's revolution within a politically active family and sent to England by her family aged ten during the Iran/Iraq war, and led far astray by the sound - and the sex appeal - of rock and roll. Alone in England and feeling a loss of identity, she found a new 'home' in the world of rock 'n' roll with bands like Guns 'n' Roses, Motley Crue and Velvet Revolver and discovered that there is no such things as rock 'n' roll: a place where only men are allowed to be transgressive, and sexually wild. A place where women are demonised for doing what men do. With heart-breaking accounts of child abuse, abortion and domestic violence, TLLS reads like an Iranian female Bukowski: raw, working class and poetic.
The Last Living Slut: Born in Iran, Bred Backstage
By:Roxana Shirazi
- Synopsis
- The Last Living Slut is the salaciously literary and sexually liberated memoir about Roxana Shirazi’s evolution from traditional Iranian to rock groupie.“Makes Pamela Des Barres’ I’m With the Band read like a nun’s diary in comparison. . . . The most gripping real-life account of female depravity we’ve ever read.” —New York Times–bestselling authors Neil Strauss and Anthony Bozza, from their IntroductionBorn in Tehran and raised within the strictures of Muslim religious culture, Roxana Shirazi’s life changed when her family immigrated to London, fleeing the Iranian Revolution. Thrust into an uptight environment where she was racially bullied, she found refuge in the sounds of hard rock and heavy metal, becoming obsessed with living the sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle that the music celebrated. When not pursuing her Masters degree in English, Roxana was attending rock concerts, pursuing her favorite musicians and exploring her voracious sexuality. Partying with members of Guns N' Roses, Mötley Crüe, Velvet Revolver, and other bands past their 80s hair metal prime, she pushed hersel
Roxana Shirazi
pages | Buy this bookBorn in Iran on the cusp of the revolution, Roxana Shirazi fled the country 10 years later for England, where she suffered as a shy, dislocated teen whose only loves were library books and rock and roll. This split passion continued into adulthood: even as she pursued a life in academia, she spent wild nights backstage with London bands. Now she reveals, in explicit and raunchy detail, her decadent romps with washed-up rockers, and she inexplicably lashes the sordid tale to the country of her birth. This is the groupie tell-all gone disastrously wrong.
What's the Big Deal?
Igniter Books, an imprint of HarperCollins, is marketing the memoir as "the rock and roll version of The Satanic Verses," and the New York Daily News quotes Shirazi as saying that several editors "passed on her manuscript for fear of a fatwa." What's so scandalous? In addition to the expected drugs-and-sex debauchery, Last Living Slut makes a mockery of Shirazi's natal religion. Take, for instance, the photo spread of Shirazi swathed in a chador, making an obscene gesture with her tongue between two fingers, or pulling open her traditional robe to reveal tawdry li
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