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Algonquin Books
June 2010
On Sale: June 1, 2010
Featuring: David Arbus
274 pages
ISBN: 1565125088
EAN: 9781565125087
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David Arbus will be graduating from high school in the spring of 1975. His divorced parents offer two options: embrace his motherβs Hasidic sect or go into his fatherβs line of work, running a porn theater in the heart of New Yorkβs Times Square. He joins the family business. What else would a healthy seventeen-year-old with an interest in photography do? But he didnβt think it would mean giving up his mother and sister altogether. Peep Show is the bittersweet story of a young man torn between a mother trying to erase her past and a father struggling to maintain his dignity in a less-than-savory business. As David peeps through the spaces in the screen that divides the men and the women in Hasidic homes, we canβt help but think of his fatherβs Imperial Theatre, where other men are looking at other women through the peepholes. As entertaining as it is moving, Peep Show looks at the elaborate ensembles, rituals, assumed names, and fierce loyalties of two secret worlds, stripping away the curtains of both.
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