Sheila Mcclear

The Last of the Live Nude Girls (eBook, ePUB)

A Memoir

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In the last of Times Square's peep shows, a man pays $40 to watch a girl strip naked behind glass. These institutions, left over from the days when 42nd Street was the vicious center of vice, will soon disappear completely from a rapidly gentrifying New York City, their stories lost forever. Yet, the story of the peeps is too interesting and too vital to the history of Times Square not to be told.

In The Last of the Live Nude Girls, Sheila McClear pulls back the curtain back on the little-documented world of the peep shows and their history. A late bloomer from the Midwest, McClear became a stripper in the peeps after finding herself adrift in New York. But after-dark Times Square seeped into her blood, and she ended up staying much longer than she imagined. The story she tells is not just of her own coming-of-age-nor is it one of sex and vice and salaciousness. Rather, it is a redemptive narrative of modern life on the fringes of society in New York City.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Catapult
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781593764623
• Artikelnr.: 37924230

Autorenporträt

Sheila McClear is a reporter at the New York Daily News. Her writing has also appeared on Gawker.com and the New York Post. She lives in Brooklyn.