YOUR TIME MACHINE TO THE PAST!
BOOK REVIEW
LIST PRICE: $19.99/AMAZON PRICE: $13.59
Training her
journalist’s eye on the glitter and glamour of American burlesque’s Greatest
Generation, Liz Goldwyn takes readers on an enthralling tour of the original
queens of the striptease. Goldwyn’s incisive expose is a retrospective of the
sights and spectacles of burlesque’s golden age—and an intimate look at the
women whose sexuality, ambition, and verve brought the cabaret stage to life.
Today, as burlesque enters a heady resurgence worldwide—with festivals around
the globe, popular books like Burlesque Fetish and The Burlesque
Handbook, and even a School of Burlesque in New York City—Pretty Things
offers a unique and exciting look at its formative past and its earliest
heroines.
Liz Goldwyn's lifelong fascination with the inimitable glamour of classic burlesque inspired her to spend the past eight years corresponding with, visiting, interviewing, receiving striptease lessons from, and forming close relationships with the last generation of the great American burlesque queeens. Goldwyn invites us to step back into an era when the hourglass figure was in vogue and striptease was a true art form.
Lili St. Cyr
Betty Rowland, known as The Ball of Fire, sued Samuel Goldwyn as a publicity stunt for using her moniker
Frenchie
Zorita --"the Lady and Her Snakes"
285 pages plus covers, color and B&W, from HarperCollins. For more info: http://www.harpercollins.com/books/Pretty-Things-Liz-Goldwyn/?isbn=9780060889449
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