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题名/责任者:

A house is not a home / Polly Adler; introduction by Rachel Rubin.

出版发行项:

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2006.

ISBN:

1558495592 (pbk. alk. paper)

ISBN:

9781558495593 (pbk. alk. paper)

其它标准号:

9781558495593

载体形态项:

xlviii, 374 p., [6] p. of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.

个人责任者:

Adler, Polly, 1900-1962.

附加个人名称:

Rubin, Rachel, 1964-

个人名称主题:

Adler, Polly,-1900-1962.

论题主题:

Prostitution-New York (State)-New York

论题主题:

Prostitutes-New York (State)-New York-Biography.

中图法分类号:

K837.128

一般附注:

Originally published: New York, N.Y. : Rinehart, 1953.

书目附注:

Includes bibliographical references.

摘要附注:

"Polly Adler's "house"--The brothel that gave this best-selling 1953 autobiography its title - was a major site of New York City underworld activity from the 1920s through the 1940s. Adler's notorious Lexington Avenue house of prostitution functioned as a sort of social club for New York's gangsters and a variety of other celebrities, including Robert Benchley and his friend Dorothy Parker. According to one New York tabloid, it made Adler's name "synonymous with sin."" "This new edition of Adler's autobiography brings back into print a book that was a mass phenomenon, in both hardback and paperback, when it was first published. A self-consciously literary work, A House Is Not a Home provides an informal social history of immigrant mobility, prostitution, Jewish life in New York, police dishonesty, the "white slavery" scare of the early twentieth century, and political corruption." "Adler's story fills an important gap in the history of immigrant life, urban experience, and organized crime in New York City. While most other accounts of the New York underworld focus on the lives of men, from Herbert Asbury's Gangs of New York through more recent works on Jewish and Italian gangsters, this book brings women's lives and problems to the forefront."--Jacket.

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