The Last Madam. A Life In The New Orleans Underworld

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Faber And Faber
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 2000
Edition: Reprint

Description: 244 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: In 1916, at age fifteen, Norma Wallace arrived in New Orleans. Sexy and shrewd, she quickly went from streetwalker to madam and by 1920 had opened what became a legendary house of prostitution. There she entertained a steady stream of governors, gangsters, and movie stars until she was arrested at last in 1962. Shortly before she died in 1974, she tape arecorded her memories-the scandalous stories of a powerful woman who had the citys politicians in her pocket and whose lovers included the twenty-five-year-old boy next door, whom she married when she was sixty-four. Combining those tapes with original research, Christine Wiltz chronicles not just Normas rise and fall but also the social history of New Orleans, thick with the vice and corruption that flourished there aand, like Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and Philistines at the Hedgerow, resurrects a vanished secret world.

ISBN: 9780571199549