Chris Wiltz
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The “raunchy, hilarious, and thrilling” true story of the incomparable Norma Wallace, proprietor of a notorious 1920s New Orleans brothel (NPR).
Norma Wallace grew up fast. In 1916, at fifteen years old, she went to work as a streetwalker in New Orleans’ French Quarter. By the 1920s, she was a “landlady”—or, more precisely, the madam of what became one of the city’s most lavish brothels. It was...
Norma Wallace grew up fast. In 1916, at fifteen years old, she went to work as a streetwalker in New Orleans’ French Quarter. By the 1920s, she was a “landlady”—or, more precisely, the madam of what became one of the city’s most lavish brothels. It was...
2) Glass house
Author
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
A novel inspired by the true story of a lone policeman who was killed at the edge of one of the most dangerous housing projects in New Orleans. Thea Tamborella returns to New Orleans after a ten-year absence to find the city of her birth changed, still a place of deep contradictions, a sensuous blend of religion, tradition, bonhomie, and decadence, but now caught in a web of fear caused by bad economic times, crime, and racial unrest. Burgess Monroe...
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
[1981]
Language
English
Description
Struggling journalist Patrick Rush, still mourning the death of his wife and trying to raise his young son alone, tries to get his life back on track by joining a creative writing circle, but he begins to lose his grip on reality when he becomes mesmerized by a story written by one of the group's members about a child stealer called the Sandman, and the situation becomes dire when his own son is snatched by a killer stalking Toronto.
