Adventures of a Little Prick

Adventurers, military men, seamen, businessmen, students, scholars, and army brats who spent time in Taiwan or Japan during the fifties and sixties and especially those who sampled the charms of the ladies of pleasure in the clubs, tea houses, hotels and bars will sympathize with young Jo Alcock's fall from grace in Adventures of a Little Prick. Born metaphysicians, too, who's most pressing question is "Why is there anything at all?" will recognize something of themselves in Jo as he ponders the vicissitudes of his life in Buddhist terms.

Others may be repelled by the exploitative aspects, the self-centered crassness of sex for pay; they may recoil at the harsh speech, and Jo's in-your-face tendency to call it like he sees it. For them, Jo is merely a prick, period, as the title of Jo Alcock's pseudo memoir suggests.

Complete with scholarly footnotes, a glossary, and the Chinese "originals" for parts of the dialogues.