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Fletcher, Christine

Ten Cents a Dance

356 pp. | Bloomsbury | April, 2008 | Trade ISBN 978-1-59990-164-0 $16.95
(3) YA The demimonde of 1940s Chicago comes to technicolor life in this melodrama about fifteen-year-old taxi dancer Ruby. She's got a saintly ma, a precocious sister, and a bad-boy boyfriend. It's pretty high camp, and the dialogue is expertly redolent: "This business is a slippery sidewalk, kid...and too many people happy to give you the first shove."
Reviewer: Roger Sutton

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