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KAREN ABBOTT

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Books by KAREN ABBOTT

American Rose

This superb, wonderfully provocative follow-up to Karen Abbott's debut bestseller, Sin in the Second City, tells the gripping story of Gypsy Rose Lee, a brainy stripper who became the unlikely embodiment of the American Dream.

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Sin in the Second City

The New York Times bestselling story of America's most famous brothel, it's aristocratic proprietors (sisters) and a culture war that rocked the nation.

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