NEW YORK CALL GIRL

by Robert Lowry ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 18, 1958

All but a few of these stories have previously been published in magazines. Lowry's scope encompasses everything and everybody: soldiers stationed in dull U.S. camp towns, in Europe; an impoverished couple awaiting their first-born; sharecroppers looking for work in the '30's; a strange group of tenants in a Lexington Ave. apartment house; a number of vignettes centering around the town of Turkey Bottoms -- the boys at Ray's Place, the girls about whom rumors develop; a faded jazz singer; a Mystery Bus Ride from Times Square to a disappointing New Jersey destination and a particularly good account of the Robinson-LaMotta fight in Chicago. The story closest to the collection's title is Girl New York, a call girl's meandering journal. The situations and characters are handled, if not with elegance and significance, at least with facility and expertise which polishes the effort to a high gloss.

Pub Date: Sept. 18, 1958

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Doubleday

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1958

Categories: FICTION