This autobiography follows Gypsy Rose Lee from her childhood in vaudeville to her career as the queen of burlesque[...]
Erik was 12 when Gypsy decided she was through with striptease--'I'm forty-two years old. Too old to be taking my clothes off in front of strangers.' Her endless schemes for staying famous and maintaining their extravagant lifestyle--a best-selling writing career, a musical based on her life, a disa[...]
"Pure ozone to those tired of ordinary oxygen."--"The New Yorker"
"One of the greatest mysteries ever written."--"The Philadelphia Daily News"
"Our most famous burlesque queen may raise the temperature with a strip tease, but she chills the blood when she goes into her detective routine."-[...]