Strip City: A stripper's farewell journey across America

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Lily Burana accepts a marriage proposal - but first decides to strip her way from Florida to Alaska before settling down. An 18-year-old dropout when she first entered the world of exotic dancing, Lily, now a successful journalist, looks at stripping with a writer's perspective, open to the paradoxes and challenges that face exotic dancers. She takes the stage name of Barbie Faust and strips her way across the country. Her funny but hard-edged memoir describes funky clubs and off-beat characters, the exhilaration that overtakes a dancer on stage - and the darker realities that assail her when she's out of the spotlight. The book is both an insider's account of a hidden world and a voyage of self-discovery.

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'Burana has enormous talents as a writer... she exposes herself with pride, style and a great sense of humour' PUBLISHING WEEKLY 'Remarkably well-done: a complex and warm insider's take on a booming industry' KIRKUS REVIEWS 'She is frank and funny and very good company. Her candid, juicy, streetwise prose rolls along merrily and, sometimes, heartbreakingly' NEW YORK TIMES 'A stylish and candid account.' HOT STARS This insider's guide to the world of stripping is ferociously well written' DAILY MAIL

Author Bio

Lily Burana has written for The New York Times Book Review, GQ, New York magazine and The Village Voice. She lives in Wyoming and New York State.