Bellocq's Women EPUB
by Peter Everett
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In 1912, in Storyville, the notorious red-light district of New Orleans, a photographer named E.
J. Bellocq took a series of photographs of the women who worked in the brothels.
Rediscovered in the 1950s, Bellocq's photographs have become famous, but the man himself remains a mystery.In Bellocq's Women, Peter Everett performs as remarkable a feat of fictional reconstruction as he did in Matisse's War and The Voyages of Alfred Wallis.
All we have of Bellocq are his photographs and a few fragmentary memories; in this extraordinary novel Everett not only brings the photographer to life - and with him his strange, tortured relationship with his mother and two young girls, one his landlady's daughter, the other a child whore - but also his world - the opium dens and bar rooms of New Orleans and the whore houses with their surreal combination of violence and homeliness.
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- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Vintage Publishing
- Publication Date:15/12/2010
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- ISBN:9781446412381
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Vintage Publishing
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- ISBN:9781446412381