Strip City: A Stripper's Farewell Journey Across America
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| Rating | : | 4.93 (568 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0786886757 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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Finally, a Voice for the Masses! bexmith Author Lily Burana dazzles with her book Strip City: A Stripper's Farewell Journey Across America. She tells of becoming engaged, then feeling that she still has unresolved issues with her former occupation as exotic dancer. To delve into these issues one last time and attempt to gain a sense of closure, she spends a year travelling the country at the top of her game.Burana has a style of writing that is at once brutally honest and achingly delicate. She can describe a filthy hotel room in revealing detail and also lay bare her soul in all its conflicted layers of exhilaration, weariness, and intellect.The plot is develop. Zeattle said Worthy look into a totally different lifestyle.. I am not going to dig into this book much. The truth is that Lily is a prety good writer and has an interesting story to tell. The end left me hanging a little but all along i was wondering how she was going to conquer her demons by reliving her past.About two thirds throught he book i was asked what it was like and in about half a second i made the snap assessment that this book is like one of Bill Bryson's travel logs - but the trip is one that Bryson could never make. I still think this is a fair take.. Well-written, wry, and honest This is a terrific book by a born storyteller with a great story to tell. I enjoyed it thoroughly. She has a great eye for detail and a gift for just the right language to bring that detail alive to the reader. I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in a thoughtful treatment of a subject that most people only THINK they know about.
Lily Burana has written for The New York Times Book Review, GQ, New York magazine, The Village Voice, Spin, and Salon. Strip City is both a hugely entertaining insider's account of a hidden world and a moving voyage of self-discovery. This is her rst book.. Lily, now a successful journalist, looks back at stripping with a writer's perspective. Her humorous yet hard-edged memoir deftly describes funky clubs and offbeat characters, the exhilaration that overtakes a dancer on stage-and the darker realities that assail her heart when she's out of the spotlight. She lives in New York State. Lily Burana had given up on stripping years before she accepted a marriage proposal-but decided to strip her way from Florida to Alaska before settling down