Peep ShowPeep Show
a Novel
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Book, 2010
Current format, Book, 2010, 1st ed., No Longer Available.Book, 2010
Current format, Book, 2010, 1st ed., No Longer Available. Offered in 0 more formatsDavid Arbus will be graduating from high school in the spring of 1975. His divorced parents offer two options: embrace his mother's Hasidic sect or go into his father's line of work, running a porn theatre in the heart of New York's Times Square. He joins the family business. What else would a healthy seventeen-year-old with an interest in photography do? But he didn't think it would mean giving up his mother and sister altogether. Peep Show is the bittersweet story of a young man torn between a mother trying to erase her past and a father struggling to maintain his dignity in a less-than-savoury business. As David peeps through the spaces in the screen that divides the men and the women in Hasidic homes, we can't help but think of his father's Imperial Theatre, where other men are looking at other women through the peepholes. As entertaining as it is moving, Peep Show looks at the elaborate ensembles, rituals, assumed names, and fierce loyalties of two secret worlds, stripping away the curtains of both.
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- Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2010.
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