![]() 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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