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Adlers notorious lexington avenue house of prostitution functioned as a sort of social club for new yorks gangsters and a variety of other celebrities, including robert benchley and his. Home browse books book details, a house is not a home. A house is not a home was a 1953 book of polly adlers life that was ghosted written anonymously by virginia faulkner. Benchley often spent the night there, and adler claims in her autobiography a house is not a home 1951 that he even did some of his magazine writing in the company of her prostitutes. No such claims can be made for this movie version of a madams memoirs. This new edition of adlers autobiography brings back into print a book that was a mass. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. The book has been largely forgotten in the ensuing decades, lost both to its initial audience of general readers and to scholars in womens studies, immigration history. Polly adlers housethe brothel that gave this bestselling 1953. Find a house is not a home by adler, polly at biblio.

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