New edition now available! The author’s first novel is set in Sydney in the late 1970s. A well-educated young woman, Vita, also has a life as a call girl, Violet. Vita’s friends are intrigued, scandalised, disapproving. Violet’s world is made up of not only her clients but the other women she works with, who have much to teach her. The two worlds collide when she meets an attractive actor. Reviewers said: “stylish, provocative and wonderfully different”, “witty, satirical”, “prose is spare and sparkling” (scroll down for more).
New ebook edition and new Local Time Publishing edition have an Afterword by the author.
First published in 1989 by Collins (out of print).
Local Time Publishing: new well-designed quality paperback in print-on-demand edition available at lulu.com
New ebook editions available at Smashwords, Amazon and your usual ebook seller. (or contact author)
Original Collins edition ISBN 0-7322-2522-1
Local Time Publishing edition ISBN 978-1-304-74412-8
Local Time Publishing edition at
http://www.lulu.com/shop/inez-baranay/between-careers/paperback/product-21726000.html
Ask your bookseller to obtain it. Booksellers can contact the author for discount copies.
Ebook Between Careers available at Smashwords.com and usual ebook sellers. With new Afterwords by the author.
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/85288
Between Careers was re-issued in the omnibus Three Sydney Novels (2004) (out of print)
Set in Sydney in the late seventies, Inez Baranay’s witty, satirical first novel takes us into the life of a classy call girl…..Wittily, humorously, Between Careers takes a close look at the moral values of both the ancient profession and of more conventional ways of living….. The prose is spare and sparkling…
-THE CANBERRA TIMES
Set in Sydney in the late seventies, Inez Baranay’s witty, satirical first novel takes us into the life of a classy call girl whose work entails servicing well-heeled business men who ply her with champagne, dinner parties and, often as not, their life stories…the name of the game is illusion and illusion is the theme of the novel…..Wittily, humorously, Between Careers takes a close look at the moral values of both the ancient profession and of more conventional ways of living….. The prose is spare and sparkling…
-Marian Eldridge, The Canberra Times, June 24, 1989
Between Careers looks at how sex functions in contemporary society - how it is bought and sold and conceptualised. It belongs to that elusive genre, intelligent erotica … Baranay’s prose is precise, clear and tends towards the epigrammatic. … The narrative moves quickly and bristles with sharp social observations. …The result is stylish, provocative and wonderfully different.
-The Age
Wit, style, pain, cruelty – Australia’s Jean Rhys.
-Frank Moorhouse
Like good sex Between Careers gets better and better…
-The Sydney Morning Herald, Saturday July 1, 1989
