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A brilliant fictional biography of the New Orleans photographer from the author of Matisse's War. In 1912 in Storyville, the notorious red-light district of New Orleans, a photographer named E.J. Bellocq took a series of photographs of the women who worked in the brothels. Rediscovered in the 1950s, Bellocq's photographs have become famous, but the man himself remains a mystery. With only the photographs and a few fragmentary memories, Everett brings the photographer to life - and with him his strange, tortured relationships with his mother and two young girls, and the world he inhabited: the opium dens, the bar rooms and the whore houses.

Peter Everett's eight previous novels include Matisse's War, described by A.S. Byatt as "brilliant, fiercely intelligent and moving," and, most recently, The Voyages of Alfred Wallis.