Saint Mazie A Novel

Jami Attenberg

eBook - 2015

Meet Mazie Phillips: big-hearted and bawdy, she's the truth-telling proprietress of The Venice, the famed New York City movie theater. It's the Jazz Age, with romance and booze aplenty—even when Prohibition kicks in—and Mazie never turns down a night on the town. But her high spirits mask a childhood rooted in poverty, and her diary, always close at hand, holds her dearest secrets. When the Great Depression hits, Mazie's life is on the brink of transformation. Addicts and bums roam the Bowery; homelessness is rampant. If Mazie won't help them, then who? When she opens the doors of The Venice to those in need, this ticket taking, fun-time girl becomes the beating heart of the Lower East Side, and in defining one neigh...borhood helps define the city. Then, more than ninety years after Mazie began her diary, it's discovered by a documentarian in search of a good story. Who was Mazie Phillips, really? A chorus of voices from the past and present fill in some of the mysterious...

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Published
Grand Central Publishing
Language
English
Main Author
Jami Attenberg
Online Access
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Adobe EPUB eBook
File Size757 MB
ISBN9781455599882
Release Date6/2/2015
Kindle Book
ISBN9781455579501
ASINB00O7X624E
Release Date6/2/2015
OverDrive Read eBook
File Size539 MB
ISBN9781455599882
Release Date6/2/2015