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Book Review of Storyville

Storyville
Storyville
Author: Lois Battle
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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from the back cover:
Some say all women have a price-that they all sell themselves somehow. there was once a place where that was true-where hard cash bought the softest women. In turn-of-the-century New Orleans, it was called Storyville.
Transplanted Yankee Julia Randsome was a blue-blooded suffragette who wanted to close it down. Beautiful, naive Kate Cavanaugh was a prostitute who wanted to survive. At fifteen, Kate had joined "the life" at an opulent, high-priced brothel in the steamy red-light district. She also fell in love with Julie Randsome's son. Now each woman must make a devastating choice. And what happens next will bring them both fact-to-face with the truth about each other and themselves.....