Saint Mazie A Novel
eAudio - 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...
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Hachette Audio
- Language
- English
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- Online Access
- OverDrive Resource Page
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- MP3 audiobook, OverDrive Listen audiobook
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File Size | 278 GB |
Parts | 9 |
ISBN | 9781478903826 |
Release Date | 6/2/2015 |
OverDrive Listen audiobook | |
File Size | 278 GB |
ISBN | 9781478903826 |
Release Date | 6/2/2015 |