Book Review: Strip City

Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner

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Lily Burana
Class/Genre:   Non-Fiction   AutoBiography
FSB, Sep 2001, $23.95, 336 pp.

When journalist Lily Burana became engaged, she chose a different type of bachelorette party than the majority of Americans. Being a former stripper, Lily decided to do a final tour in homage to her former profession that is looked down upon by much of society, including his patrons. How will her fiancé react and will the glitter and high of the striptease reclaim Lily?

STRIP CITY is an engaging autobiography that lays bare in a humorous manner Lily Burana's tremendous talent for stripping not just her clothes, but the mores of society. Ms. Burana uses humor, self-deprecating vulnerability, and tremendous amounts of pride to give a warm finger to the righteous while stripping naked to the morality that many hide behind. Anyone, who enjoys a witty, frisky, and somewhat satirical look from a writer who bares her soul by turning Matthew Arnold’s "clothing theory of Man" (make that woman) into a deep look at life.

Harriet Klausner

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