The Last of the Live Nude Girls: A Memoir

The Last of the Live Nude Girls: A Memoir

A â€œeye-opening, gritty, and compellingâ€ memoir by one of New York Cityâ€™s last Times Square peep show girls (The Paris Review Online).
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In 2006, Gotham City Video was among the last of its kind where, breathing in a cocktail of Pine-Sol and Windex, a man paid $40 to watch a girl strip naked behind glass. These fantasy lands, left over from the days when 42nd Street was the center of vice, eventually disappeared from the rapidly gentrifying city, their stories lost forever. Not those of tenderloin grinder, Sheila McCelar. Pulling back the curtain on the little-documented world of the peeps, her â€œribaldÂ .Â .Â . memorable and highly relevantâ€ (The Daily Beast) reflection is â€œboth a eulogy and a paean to the freaks and misfits who have long given their souls to the cityâ€ (Matthew Gallaway, author ofÂ The Metropolis Case).
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A late bloomer from small-town Michigan, Sheila arrived in New York as a struggling actress and soon found herself adrift. Borderline homeless, and crashing with friends, she finally got steady work that paid the rentâ€”as a stripper along the triple-x stretch of Eighth Avenue. When Times Square seeped into her blood, she ended up staying much longer than she imagined. The story she tells is not just of her own coming-of-age, itâ€™s a â€œsharp, sweetly personalÂ .Â .Â . fascinating and honestâ€ narrative of modern life on the fringes of society in New York City (Mark Jacobson, author ofÂ Pale Horse Rider).
Country USA
Manufacturer Soft Skull
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2011-07-25
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Soft Skull
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2011-07-25
Format	Kindle eBook

The Last of the Live Nude Girls: A Memoir

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