Ten Cents a Dance
Fletcher, Christine
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
With her mother ill, its up to fifteen-year-old Ruby Jacinski to support her family. But in the 1940s, the only opportunities open to a Polish-American girl from Chicagos poor Yards is a job in one of the meat packing plants. Through a chance meeting with a local tough, Ruby lands a job as a taxi dancer and soon becomes an expert in the art of fishing: working her patrons for meals, cash, clothes, even jewelry. Drawn ever deeper into the world of dance halls, jazz, and the mob, Ruby gradually realizes that the only one who can save her is herself. A mesmerizing look into a little known world and era.
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 1599901641
ISBN(13-digit): 9781599901640
Dewey Decimal: [Fic]
Library of Congress: 2007050737
Book Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 311
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