{"product_id":"sporting-guide-los-angeles-1897","title":"Sporting Guide: Los Angeles, 1897","description":"\u003cp\u003eA brilliantly imaginative, illustrated recreation of an 1890s Los Angeles pocket guide, or \"Sporting Guide,\" to the brothels of the day.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLos Angeles, 1897, When Vice Ruled The City\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Long before the glitz and glamour of Hollywood, Los Angeles was a city where dreamers from all over the world came to make their fortunes—where a madam named Pearl Morton entertained the most powerful politicians and entrepreneurs inside her namesake brothel. In a series of haunting, interlinked stories set in the period, author and filmmaker Liz Goldwyn re-creates a “sporting guide”—a secret diary and guidebook of the best brothels and prostitutes in the city. In this world a hushed conversation inside a velvet-lined boudoir could destroy a man, and the rustle of bushes might reveal a sordid assignation. Based on original research in the libraries and archives of Los Angeles, these fictional stories are often inspired by real historical characters—like the laudanum-addicted Cora Phillips, whose tombstone Goldwyn rediscovered, or Bartolo Ballerino, Italian immigrant slumlord of the forgotten red-light district, or thirteen-year-old Frances dreaming of life beyond the Children’s Orphan Asylum. Interspersed in these stories—and featuring over a hundred historical photos and illustrations—Goldwyn reveals the history of the period, from the rage for corsets to crushed pearl powder cosmetics and the awful cures for syphilis. \u003ci\u003eSporting Guide\u003c\/i\u003e evokes a lost world of those on the margins of Los Angeles, of the hustlers who made it into one of the great cities of the world, and Goldwyn gives a poignant voice to the people and stories forgotten by time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Regan Arts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781941393048\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Regan Arts.","offers":[{"title":"Standard Secondhand — £13.40","offer_id":47919250014385,"sku":"SB-1941393047-C3","price":13.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/1941393047.jpg?v=1789270362","url":"https:\/\/sellbooks.co.uk\/products\/sporting-guide-los-angeles-1897","provider":"Sell Books .co.uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}