My G-String Mother: At Home and Backstage with Gypsy Rose Lee by Erik Lee Preminger

From the Publisher

Erik was 12 when Gypsy decided she was through with striptease—'I’m forty-two years old. Too old to be taking my clothes off in front of strangers.' Her endless schemes for staying famous and maintaining their extravagant lifestyle—a best-selling writing career, a musical based on her life, a disastrous attempt to turn her home movies into a blockbuster—make for comedic yet poignant reading. My G-String Mother is a stylish, incisive portrait of two lives: an awkward adolescent who was as much confidante, co-conspirator, and companion as son, and the legendary woman who told police at a raid at the famous Minsky’s burlesque house, 'I wasn’t naked. I was completely covered by a blue spotlight.'

Details from Seller

• ISBN: 1583940960
• Publisher: North Atlantic Books
• Pub. Date: December 2003
• Condition:

Comments from the Seller: Berkeley, CA 2004 Trade Paperback As New Chapter Book. 8vo-over 7?"-9?" tall. 278 pages with index, 16 pages of b&w photos,