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A house is not a home

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Description: "Polly Adler's house--the brothel that gave this best-selling 1953 autobiography its title--was a major site of New York City underworld activity from the 1920s through the 1940s. Adler's notorious Lexington Avenue house of prostitution functioned as a sort of social club for New York's gangsters and a variety of other celebrities, including Robert Benchley and his friend Dorothy Parker. According to one New York tabloid, it made Adler's name synonymous with sin." --Google Books.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1954.
Call number: 654788
Creator: Adler, Polly (1900-1962)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Roger S. Hong, June 2006. From the Hong family library.
Dimensions: 18 cm.

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