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Bellocq's Women
Peter Everett
出版Random House, 2010-12-15
主題Fiction / BiographicalFiction / LiteraryFiction / Historical / GeneralFiction / General
ISBN14464123859781446412381
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=87-I8LkvEyAC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.