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The Queen of Steeplechase Park
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The Queen of Steeplechase Park is the absolutely, positively, practically, almost-true story of infamous burlesque queen and magic meatball maker Belladonna Marie Donato. Pregnant at fifteen after gleefully losing her virginity to pansexual neighbourhood strongman Francis Anthony Mozzarelli, Bella is robbed of her baby by a...
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The Queen of Steeplechase Park is the absolutely, positively, practically, almost-true story of infamous burlesque queen and magic meatball maker Belladonna Marie Donato.
Pregnant at fifteen after gleefully losing her virginity to pansexual neighbourhood strongman Francis Anthony Mozzarelli, Bella is robbed of her baby by a pack of nefarious nuns, and her embittered papa has her sterilised without her consent (legal in 1935). With the help of a besotted Francis, her newfound family of queercentric outcasts, and a top-secret meatball recipe, a devastated Bella embarks on a riotous quest through Depression-era Coney Island sideshows, the tawdry world of peekaboo striptease routines, a doomed mob marriage, and a tasty collection of wisdom-filled recipes to find her lost child, herself, and maybe even true love.
It all leads Bella back home, to the scene of her original sin, where she boldly faces matters of life and death, questions of forgiveness, and a holy mess only the healing properties of great Italian cooking can fix.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781942436614
Publisher: Forest Avenue Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 20 June 2024
Country: United States
Imprint: Forest Avenue Press
Illustration: Illustrations
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 228.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 470
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About the Author
David Ciminello is a Lambda Literary Fellow and the proud recipient of a Table 4 WritersFoundation Grant. His fiction has appeared in the Lambda Award-winning anthologyPortlandQueer: Tales of the Rose City,Nailed Magazine, and in fine artist Stephen O'Donnell'sTheUntold Gaze. His original screenplayBruno, an Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwritingfinalist, was made into a motion picture directed by Shirley MacLaine and stars Kathy Bates,Gary Sinese, and Jennifer Tilly. As an actor David has guest starred onSeinfeld("The Barber"),Murder She Wrote,Matlock, andKojak. David and his husband, photographer and podcastartist Brian Delaney, reside in Portland, Oregon.
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