Lady of the Burlesque Ballet
2012
First Published
3.50
Average Rating
32
Number of Pages
In a topsy-turvy ragtime era of side-shows and bamboozlers, Irish Maupin goes from street urchin to burlesque star. Plucked from the streets as a girl and fattened up for candy-factory advertising, she navigates a sensational career around heart-break and loneliness, gaining and losing hundreds of pounds, manipulated by the men around her even as she defies them. From acclaimed Nebraska author Timothy Schaffert, this inaugural Pshares Single is a surreal adult fairy tale about obesity, murder, and how we change our bodies to meet the needs of others.
Avg Rating
3.50
Number of Ratings
48
5 STARS
15%
4 STARS
40%
3 STARS
27%
2 STARS
19%
1 STARS
0%
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Author
Timothy Schaffert
Author · 9 books
Author of five novels: The Swan Gondola, The Coffins of Little Hope, Devils in the Sugar Shop, The Singing and Dancing Daughters of God, and The Phantom Limbs of the Rollow Sisters. Director of the (downtown) omaha lit fest. Contributing editor, Fairy Tale Review. Assistant Professor in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln creative writing program. "The Singing and Dancing Daughters of God" is part of the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers program, and was the 2007 Omaha Reads one-book-one-city selection. "Devils in the Sugar Shop" was a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and a Book Sense pick.
