"Raised on a farm, runaway at fourteen, prostitute at fifteen, for Nell Kimball the whorehouse was refuge, livelihood, college education, emancipation. She saw humanity as no-one else could: with its breeches down. She played host to preachers, politicians and businessmen, in a career as whore and madam that spanned almost sixty years of American history. From the languor and elegance of old St Louis, to love and heartache and the squalid clip-joints of New York, to the opulence of the New Orleans madam, this is Nell Kimball's incomparable life, the uninhibited memoirs of a queen of the flesh trade, her own American success story"--
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Höhe: 203 mm
Breite: 127 mm
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978-1-68137-578-6 (9781681375786)
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Nell Kimball (1854-1934) was a writer and madam. During her career she operated brothels in San Francisco and New Orleans. She retired from the trade in 1917. The exact time and place of her death is unknown.
Stephen Longstreet (1907-2002) was a prolific artist and author of fiction, nonfiction, stage plays, and screenplays. Among his written works are the novels The Sisters Liked Them Handsome, which was adapted into the Broadway musical High Button Shoes, and Stallion Road, which was adapted into a film of the same name.
