{"product_id":"9781446412381","title":"Bellocq's Women","description":"In 1912, in Storyville, the notorious red-light district of New Orleans, a photographer named E. J. Bellocq took a series of photographs of the women who worked in the brothels. Rediscovered in the 1950s, Bellocq's photographs have become famous, but the man himself remains a mystery.In Bellocq's Women, Peter Everett performs as remarkable a feat of fictional reconstruction as he did in Matisse's War and The Voyages of Alfred Wallis. All we have of Bellocq are his photographs and a few fragmentary memories; in this extraordinary novel Everett not only brings the photographer to life - and with him his strange, tortured relationship with his mother and two young girls, one his landlady's daughter, the other a child whore - but also his world - the opium dens and bar rooms of New Orleans and the whore houses with their surreal combination of violence and homeliness.","brand":"Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47128306974960,"sku":"9781446412381","price":14.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781446412381_p0.jpg?v=1763826267","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781446412381","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}