Does anyone recognize this book/would you read it?
The story takes place in the 1920s/30s during the Great Depression age. It’s told by a girl who is in poverty and stays with a famous gangster for food and clothes. He runs a sort of whorehouse but dotes on a few girls to stay with him in public, just to act as showgirls. The plot goes on about the girl’s hardships as a flapper and gangster’s woman.
Does anyone recognize this book? If not, would you read something about this topic?
I have seen books like this alot, but in different settings. I would read it IF (big if!) it was done well, and had some things that made it less cliche.
Uncommon Knowledge: The Great Depression with Amity Shlaes
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Seabiscuit (Widescreen Edition) $4.99 A great American story from Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Gary Ross, Seabiscuit stars Tobey Maguire, Jeff Bridges and Chris Cooper. Based on the inspiring true story of three men – a jockey, a trainer and a businessman – and the undersized racehorse who took the entire nation on the ride of a lifetime. This breathtaking film achievement is “a must-see moviegoing experience” (Chicago Sun-Times)… |
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It Happened One Night $12.34 Director Frank Capra (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington) took home every Oscar in the book (well, okay, all the major ones) for this seminal 1934 comedy starring Clark Gable as a hard-bitten reporter who stays close to a runaway heiress (Claudette Colbert) rather than lose a good story. Funny and sexy, the film is full of memorable scenes often referred to in other films, such as the “walls of Jericho”… |
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Seabiscuit – America’s Legendary Racehorse (Documentary) $1.99 Heroes come in all shapes and sizes. The heroes of this true story entered the stage as minor players and left as champions…real life American legends. In 1936, an unlikely cast of characters came together:* Seabiscuit: a burned-out, knobby-kneed racehorse* Red Pollard: a down and out, half blind jockey* George Woolf: the “Ice Man,” a cool and cocky rider* Tom Smith: an aging western trainer byp… |
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Meditations2Go Guided Audio Meditations CD Set 1 $14.99 Meditations2Go CD Set 1 features two full-length, fully immersive guided audio meditations (synchronized music and narration) on a single Audio CD. Track 1: “Restoring Balance and Clarity” (26:48 minutes). This guided audio meditation helps restore your natural calm and balance, emotionally, mentally, and physically, gathering in your strength, your energy and your clarity. It’s excellent as a ge… |
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The Great Depression: American Music in the ’30s $13.98 … |
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The Grapes of Wrath $7.39 When The Grapes of Wrath was published in 1939, America, still recovering from the Great Depression, came face to face with itself in a startling, lyrical way. John Steinbeck gathered the country’s recent shames and devastations–the Hoovervilles, the desperate, dirty children, the dissolution of kin, the oppressive labor conditions–in the Joad family. Then he set them down on a westward-ru… |
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl $3.89 The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since.Timothy Egan’s critically acclaimed account rescues this iconic chapter of American history from the shadows in a tour de force of historical reportage. Following a dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, Egan tells of their desp… |
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The Glass Menagerie $3.50 No play in the modern theatre has so captured the imagination and heart of the American public as Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie.Menagerie was Williams’s first popular success and launched the brilliant, if somewhat controversial, career of our pre-eminent lyric playwright. Since its premiere in Chicago in 1944, with the legendary Laurette Taylor in the role of Amanda, the play has been … |