Pauline's: Memoirs of the Madam on Clay Street

by Pauline Tabor

Book Overview

Autobiography of a brothel owner This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879630086
• Release Date: January 1971
• Publisher: Touchstone Pub. Co
• Length: 295 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Whorehouse Revisited

My mother and father use to tell me stories about Pauline's whorehouse in Bowling Green, Kentucky. In 1989, my father found a copy in Atlanta, Georgia and I, at seventeen, had to sneak the book past them to read it.Pauline was a very interesting old gal - but I don't think she had much to be proud of!!!!The book is a great edition to any table top collection - it was insightful and fascinating.

Pauline's

This is an outstanding hardback book. The seller was wonderful with communicating and very honest about the condition of the book. Thank you for the wonderful purchase! Tammy B, Auburn, KY

The Wings of the Soiled Dove

This excellently written, well-thought-out book is a study in the philosophy of conscience on two levels: Pauline's as an individual, and that of the society in which she found it necessary to survive. We read first-hand of Pauline's own yearning after and struggle for decency, her despair over her rejection by the church, her compensatory generosity and altruism. She knows her sin: being mercenary, but somehow the memories that she treasures end by being more compassionate than mercenary, even as she insists that the vices of man put her own greed in the shadow. Above and beyond the person of Pauline Tabor is the question of where the oldest profession in the world fits or should fit in society. We see this being faced by the most influential people in the town, with no resolution. Humanity is still humanity. Adam was a man of the earth, nor can we moralize away the dust that clings to him. We don't see here the hard women of "East of Eden", but a real one, who faced with compassion issues more common to another time, when society was not as kind to women on their own.

Paulines

An interesting veiw of prostitution in a small town. Pauline tells it like it was [without naming names] to run a bawdy house in small town America in the days when " good girls didn't"