Bellocq's Women
  • Published:
    Dec-2010
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    Print / eBook
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    249
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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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EDITIONS
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    • May-2001
    • Vintage
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0099289199
    • ISBN13: 9780099289197
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    • Aug-2000
    • Random House (UK)
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0224059882
    • ISBN13: 9780224059886
    • First Edition
    • Dec-2010
    • Random House
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1446412385
    • ISBN13: 9781446412381
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    • Dec-2010
    • Vintage Digital
    • eBook (Kindle)



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