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American Rose A Nation Laid Bare The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee

✍ Scribed by Abbott, Karen

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Weight: 6 MB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780679604563

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✦ Synopsis

With the critically acclaimed Sin in the Second City, bestselling author Karen Abbott ''pioneered sizzle history'' (USA Today). Now she returns with the gripping and expansive story of America's coming-of-age--told through the extraordinary life of Gypsy Rose Lee and the world she survived and conquered.

America in the Roaring Twenties. Vaudeville was king. Talking pictures were only a distant flicker. Speakeasies beckoned beyond dimly lit doorways; money flowed fast and free. But then, almost overnight, the Great Depression leveled everything. When the dust settled, Americans were primed for a star who could distract them from grim reality and excite them in new, unexpected ways. Enter Gypsy Rose Lee, a strutting, bawdy, erudite stripper who possessed a preternatural gift for delivering exactly what America needed.

With her superb narrative skills and eye for compelling detail, Karen Abbott brings to vivid life an era of ambition, glamour, struggle,...

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