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The Show That Smells

The Show That Smells

McCormack, Derek

Paperback

Series: Little House on the Bowery

FantasyGeneral GLBTQIA FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $15.95

ISBN10: 1933354712
ISBN13: 9781933354712
Publisher: Akashic Books, Ltd.
Published: Jul 1 2009
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.10
Language: English

[Derek McCormack is] a whiz at fashion and other often-freaky stuff that the popular imagination latches onto . . . --Toronto Star

McCormack begins his quirky Tod Browning-inspired tale with a disclaimer: This book is a work of fiction. It is a parody. It is a phantasmagoria . . . Elsa Schiaparelli was never a vampire. Shocking! by Schiaparelli never contained blood. The work of Schiaparelli, a 1930s Italian fashion designer, was influenced by Surrealist Salvador Dalí, and the same spirit permeates The Show that Smells, which is set in a maze of mirrors. Schiaparelli dresses introduced playfulness and a sense of anything goes to the fashion industry. She branched into perfume and became designer to a number of film stars. In addition to Schiaparelli, this tale is about Jimmie Rodgers, a country music-singer dying of tuberculosis, and his wife, Carrie, who tries to save him by selling her soul to a devil who designs haute couture clothing.

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