My G-String Mother At Home and Backstage With Gypsy Rose Lee

Erik was 12 when Gypsy decided she was through with striptease 'I'm forty-two years old. Too old to be taking my clothes off in front of strangers.' Her endless schemes for staying famous and maintaining their extravagant lifestyle a best-selling writing career, a musical based on her life, a disastrous attempt to turn her home movies into a blockbuster make for comedic yet poignant reading.My G-String Motheris a stylish, incisive portrait of two lives: an awkward adolescent who was as much confidante, co-conspirator, and companion as son, and the legendary woman who told police at a raid at the famous Minsky's burlesque house, 'I wasn't naked. I was completely covered by a blue spotlight.'Preminger, Erik Lee is the author of 'My G-String Mother At Home and Backstage With Gypsy Rose Lee' with ISBN 9781583940969 and ISBN 1583940960.