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Title: The Last Madam: A Life in the New Orleans Underworld by Christine Wiltz ISBN: 0-306-81012-3 Publisher: Da Capo Press Pub. Date: January, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (26 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Ultimately tragic
Comment: This is a fascinating life story involving the rags to riches tale of Norma Wallace. The story contains countless episodes of intrigue and salacious details of the Brothel business that make for a very entertaining read. There are other passages that get quite bogged down in detail regarding ancillary characters that don't add much to the narrative flow. Overall Norma Wallace is portrayed very sympathetically and sounds like someone who would be fabulous to have a few drinks with and listen to. However she ends very badly as a victim of her own vanity and insecurity.
The descriptions of the French Quarter during the 1st half of the 20th century are great reading for lovers of New Orleans. I'll be sure to walk down Conti St. on my next visit and see if I can find some of the places described in this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Real Page Turner
Comment: I could not put this book down. Every page turned was a new adventure. The author did a great job describing New Orleans way back when. A must read for anyone who is curious as to what goes on in a whorehouse. Norma Wallace was larger than life and lived her life to the fullest, just the way she wanted to. I found it very entertaining.
Rating: 4
Summary: Interesting
Comment: Living in metropolitan New Orleans for the last twenty five years and working adjacent to the French Quarter, I found this book to be a very interesting overview of politics and the prostitution business over the middle half of the twentieth century. The views of the mayors, the cops and the working girls are pretty superficial, but that is all right. Alhough it is not particularly well written, the book is very readable. I wonder, though, if I would have enjoyed it nearly as much if I lived in Cleveland...or Des Moines.
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Title: Storyville, New Orleans, Being an Authentic, Illustrated Account of the Notorious Red-Light District by Al Rose ISBN: 0817344039 Publisher: University of Alabama Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1974 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The French Quarter: An Informal History of the New Orleans Underworld by Herbert Asbury ISBN: 1560254947 Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Bellocq's Women by Peter Everett ISBN: 0099289199 Publisher: Random House (UK) Pub. Date: 01 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Storyville by Lois Battle ISBN: 0140267697 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Chasing the Devil's Tail: A Mystery of Storyville, New Orleans by David Fulmer ISBN: 0156027283 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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