7/4/2023 0 Comments Saint mazie bookMeanwhile, Rosie’s demons force the family to move throughout New York City. Louis owns legitimate businesses-such as the theater Mazie runs-but in all likelihood is a loan shark. Her coarseness of voice is on display as she tells her life story, eventually being taken in by Rosie and Louis Gordon, her older sister and brother-in-law. The story unfolds mostly through diary entries, but also snippets from an unpublished autobiography (fictional, like the diary entries) and recollections of those who met or knew of the woman who, according to her New York Times obit, “passed out advice, money, and sympathy” to men who lost their livelihoods and dignity during the 1930s. Attenberg’s ( The Middlesteins) new novel is based on the WWI- and Depression-era life of Mazie Phillips, Queen of the Bowery (and subject of a famous Joseph Mitchell New Yorker profile).
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