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Strip City: A Stripper's Farewell Journey Across America LILY BURANA hc 2001 1st
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
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- ISBN
- 9780786867905
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Talk MIRAMAX Books
ISBN-10
0786867906
ISBN-13
9780786867905
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1958274
Product Key Features
Book Title
Strip City : a Stripper's Farewell Journey Across America
Number of Pages
328 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Women, General, Dance / General
Publication Year
2001
Genre
Performing Arts, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
22 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2001-039129
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
792.7/028/092 B
Synopsis
The ultimate road trip; a daring and disarmingly honest odyssey across America with an ex-stripper who dusts off her dancing shoes for a farewell tour.Lily Burana had been working as a journalist for five years when, on a cross-country assignment, she meets a cowboy in Cheyenne, Wyoming. They fall in love quickly, and in short order he proposes to her. Her cowboy doesnt flinch when she tells him about her past, but as the reality of the engagement sets in, Burana realizes that she cant settle down until she comes to terms with the business of stripping--the controversial but exhilarating crucible in which she came of age. She packs up a hairpiece, hairspray, Lucite platforms, garters, neon thongs, and body glitter, and enrolls in a stripping academy to perfect her routine. Zigzagging across America from the topflight gentlemens clubs of Dallas to the blue-collar go-go bars of New Jersey, from Anchorage to Tijuana, Las Vegas to Los Angeles, she even competes in the Miss Topless Wyoming competition. Along the way, she seeks out a host of colorful women who share with her the unwritten history of striptease: an over-looked and under-recorded American art form. And what she discovers--about the business, about the culture of strip clubs, and about herself--is truly remarkable.While on the road, she recalls her start in the peep shows of Times Square and her groundbreaking legal battle for strippers rights, waged against one of the most notorious strip club owners in the country. With the benefit of her independence and experience, shes shocked to learn how much, yet how little, the world of striptease has changed. Insightful and reflective, Burana describes the clubs and bars, the patrons and other dancers in striking detail, and takes us into the nitty-gritty of a dancers life, bringing to light the variety of techniques and tricks of the trade.Burana writes with immediacy and candor; hard-won wisdom and hard-bitten humor; a novelists voice and a journalists eye. Strip City is a shrewd take, free of illusion, on the darker, seamier side of America. She effortlessly conveys the atmosphere of a seedy strip joint; the exhilaration of a dancer on stage when she gets into her zone; and ultimately the complex emotional repercussions that arise when a woman takes off her clothes for money.
LC Classification Number
PN1949.S7B87 2001
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