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Ten Cents a Dance
Christine Fletcher
出版Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2009-07-15
主題Juvenile Fiction / GeneralJuvenile Fiction / Historical / United States / 20th CenturyJuvenile Fiction / Love & Romance
ISBN15999050009781599905006
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=6voa_UiSLXEC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋With her mother ill, it's up to fifteen-year-old Ruby Jacinski to support her family. But in the 1940s, the only opportunities open to a Polish-American girl from Chicago's poor Yards is a job in one of the meat packing plants. Through a chance meeting with a local tough, Ruby lands a job as a taxi dancer and soon becomes an expert in the art of "fishing": working her patrons for meals, cash, clothes, even jewelry. Drawn ever deeper into the world of dance halls, jazz, and the mob, Ruby gradually realizes that the only one who can save her is herself. A mesmerizing look into a little known world and era.