# Bellocq's Women

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- Authors: [Peter Everett](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-everett)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2001-06-01

## 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.

## Editions

### Bellocq's Women

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9928-919-7
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2001-06-01
- Language: en_GB