With her superb narrative skills and eye for compelling detail, Karen Abbott brings to vivid life an era of ambition, glamour, struggle, and survival. Enter Gypsy Rose Lee, a strutting, bawdy, erudite stripper who possessed a preternatural gift for delivering exactly what America needed. When the dust settled, Americans were primed for a star who could distract them from grim reality and excite them in new, unexpected ways. But then, almost overnight, the Great Depression leveled everything. Speakeasies beckoned beyond dimly lit doorways money flowed fast and free. Talking pictures were only a distant flicker. 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.Īmerica in the Roaring Twenties. With the critically acclaimed Sin in the Second City, bestselling author Karen Abbott “pioneered sizzle history” ( USA Today).
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