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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
These Days

These Days

Christie, Margo

Paperback

General FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 1484171195
ISBN13: 9781484171196
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jun 13 2013
Pages: 322
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.72 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Fueled by a passion for 1940s movies and her jazz musician father's nostalgia for a time when every hole-in-the-wall bar had a band, 14-year old Becky Shelling dreams of a career in show biz. When her beloved dad disappears, Becky takes up with Lenny Moss, a smooth-talking married strip-joint owner whose nostalgia is limited to a time when men ruled and women knew their place. Taking her to work for him on Baltimore's World-Famous Block, Lenny inadvertently leads Becky down a path of self-discovery on a once-stylish, now-decrepit adult-entertainment strip, where everyone has a tale about the good old days but nothing is quite as it seems. As Becky struggles to reconcile her life as Lenny's mistress/star performer with the realization that her father's disappearance was no accident, THESE DAYS juxtaposes past and present, myth and reality in ways that shine a light on the pitfalls of nostalgia and challenge the tenacity with which we cling to the past. [These Days] gives credence to the saying, 'You should write what you know.' It's obvious this writer knows her territory. - Amazon Vine Review As original as it is addictive. A truly compelling read that is worthy of high praise. - Publisher's Weekly Independent Review.

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