Despite Maxwell Bodenheim's sometimes flamboyant prose, this novel about a worldly-wise adventurer and his young female apprentice hits the mark in unpacking the demimonde. This would have been hot stuff on publication, in 1930, the kind of book that gets dogeared at all the "dirty parts." It can still shock, but more than that offers a believable and thoughtful survey of "the way we live now."
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