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Beschreibung
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 [...] 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.
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 [...] 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.
Über den Autor
Peter Everett
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
Genre: Biographien, Importe
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780099289197
ISBN-10: 0099289199
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Everett, Peter
Hersteller: Vintage
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 198 x 129 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Peter Everett
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.06.2001
Gewicht: 0,311 kg
Artikel-ID: 131812792