Name: Bellocq's Women
SKU: 57259543
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Author: Everett, Peter
ISBN: 9780099289197

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Author

Peter Everett

Publisher

Vintage

Language

English

Pages

256

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.9x12.8x1.8 cm

Weight

0.37 kg.

ISBN13

9780099289197

Synopsis "Bellocq's Women"

In 1912, in Storyville, the notorious red-light district of New Orleans, a photographer named E. J. Bellocq took a series of photographs of the women who worked in the brothels. Rediscovered in the 1950s, Bellocq's photographs have become famous, but the man himself remains a mystery.In Bellocq's Women, Peter Everett performs as remarkable a feat of fictional reconstruction as he did in Matisse's War and The Voyages of Alfred Wallis. All we have of Bellocq are his photographs and a few fragmentary memories; in this extraordinary novel Everett not only brings the photographer to life - and with him his strange, tortured relationship with his mother and two young girls, one his landlady's daughter, the other a child whore - but also his world - the opium dens and bar rooms of New Orleans and the whore houses with their surreal combination of violence and homeliness.

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