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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This book has been one of my favorites , Julia is a wonderful leading lady, some one I would want to know. ( ) A fascinating look at two women, one from society and one from the red light district and the extraordinary lives they lived at the turn of the twentieth century. http://nicolewbrown.blogspot.com/2014/10/storyville-by-louis-battle.html Suicide was a plan even the most helpless could carry out. Two bottles of sleeping syrup and a bottle of whiskey. Rocked to sleep in the bosom of the deep. It was a comforting thought, better than a pile of money because no one could take it away from you. --Lois Battle (Storyville p 378) It's the late 1800s in New Orleans and "the district" has been legalized thanks to Alderman Storey. The plot is weak; the last chapter moves several decades forward. The characters are not well-developed. I think the author was trying to commend the women for their foresight, business acumen and independence ... but then again ... Basically this is a poorly crafted soap opera. This is the story of two very different women living in 1880s New Orleans. Innocent Kate - seduced by a rake and abandoned - turns to a life of prostitution to support herself. She wins the heart of the wealthy son of a distinguished New Orleans family. Meanwhile, transplanted Boston blueblood, suffragette Julia, has just discovered that her husband Charles owns brothels in Storyville, the prostitution district of New Orleans. This severely damages their marriage through Julia's bitterness and lack of trust. Eventually, tragedy adds another dimension to their domestic squabbling; then Julia befriends the luckless Kate and comes into her own as a activist for women's rights. I liked this story very much, although I did think that it was a little slow for me to get into at the beginning. I give it an A+! nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
From turn-of-the-century New Orleans, a city renowned for sin, seduction, and sex, comes a tale of two women inextricably linked by "the District" of Storyville, where prostitution was legal--and flourishing. Kate--young, beautiful, and abandoned by a man who doesn't love her--finds herself thrown on the mercies of the city. Julia Randsome is a transplanted Yankee, a supporter of women's rights, who against everyone's advice marries into one of the city's most prominent families. Though they occupy different universes in New Orleans, somehow all roads bring Kate and Julia to the same place...back to the District. As lush and provocative as New Orleans is itself, Storyville sweeps across lines of caste and blood, money and desire--and into the voluptuous secrets of a city as tempting as any on earth. "Lois Battle is a born storyteller."--The Washington Post "Storyville comes to lurid life."--Kirkus Reviews Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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