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The Escape Artist
by
Judith Katz (Goodreads Author)
Set in the brothels and gangster dens of Jewish Buenos Aires at the beginning of the twentieth century, The Escape Artist catapults us into the lives of Sofia Teitelbaum (tricked into prostitution and away from the gentility of her Eastern European family), and a handsome, mysterious magician, Hankus Lubarsky (enjoying the freedom of South America after the pogroms of Pola...more
Paperback, 288 pages
Published
March 1st 1997
by Firebrand Books
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I'm sad to learn that this book, only published in 1997, is out of print, and will now only find it's readers through used vendors and personal libraries. It's an important book, not just because it can be catagorized as lesbian fiction, but because it can rather be catagorized as historical fiction featuring a lesbian main character. The world needs more stories of homosexuals whose stories are told not because their sexual preference makes them interesting, but whose stories are inherently mea...more
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I love stories about magic, but this was so much more than that. Not only about magic, but magical story in every way. This book reminded me of Tipping The Velvet, which is one of my all time favorites, so it's a huge compliment. It would be wrong to describe this book as merely a lesbian story or a historic fiction, it's both and so much more, a coming out, coming of age story set against impossible circumstances, this fairly slender volume has an epic quality to it as well as a grand adventure...more
The book gives a good insight about the Jewish community in Latin America. The love story between the two female characters is predictable but well written.
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Having written a dissertation on Jewish prostitution in an Anglo-Jewish context, I was delighted to discover that Judith Katz had written a novel on the subject. All the things I painstakingly pieced together from archival documents have been turned into a living, breathing world between the pages of this book.
19 July 2011: I'm on page 142 & I have to return it to the library before I leave. Boo.
19 July 2011: I'm on page 142 & I have to return it to the library before I leave. Boo.
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