THE BISHOP AND THE BUTTERFLY

Name: THE BISHOP AND THE BUTTERFLY
Author: MICHAEL WOLRAICH

Por MICHAEL WOLRAICH

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Detrás de los muros de un convento, reina el silencio, solo salpicado por el murmullo de las oraciones o los melismas de los cantos litúrgicos. O así es como solemos imaginarlo, pero la realidad es otra. Un espacio creado por mujeres y para mujeres, con otras formas de amar, cuidar, organizarse, crear y convivir. Y, sobre todo, podemos constatar que TODO LO QUE NOS PASA, YA LE PASÓ A UNA MONJA DEL BARROCO.

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Sinopsis

The 1931 murder of Broadway Butterfly Vivian Gordon exposed an explosive story of graft corruption and entrapment that went all the way to the top of the state Wolraich brings a journalist s eye and a novelist s elegance to this story of Jazz Age New York New York Times Vivian Gordon went out before midnight in a velvet dress and mink coat Her body turned up the next morning in a desolate Bronx park a dirty clothesline wrapped around her neck At her stylish Manhattan apartment detectives discovered notebooks full of names businessmen socialites gangsters And something else a letter from an anti corruption commission established by Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt Led by the imperious Judge Samuel Seabury the commission had uncovered a police conspiracy to frame women as prostitutes Had Vivian Gordon been executed to bury her secrets As FDR pressed the police to solve her murder Judge Seabury pursued the trail of corruption to the top of Gotham s powerful political machine the infamous Tammany Hall