The Whorehouse Papers by Larry L. King [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 1982 • Viking

The Whorehouse Papers by Larry L. King

FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [1982] THE VIKING PRESS

Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition.

Dust jacket shows some worn edges but is otherwise nice, clean sharp and in tact.  Ships in a new custom fit jacket protector!

Book itself is excellent.  Pristine cloth bound boards. 

Reads good as new!

It started with two phone calls sandwiched around his article in Playboy about the "Chicken Ranch", a notorious bordello in the little Texas town of LaGrange. Larry L. King up to his red neck in debt, suddenly was embarked upon a theatrical adventure that had all the makings of a fiasco. He began keeping a journal of his experiences with every expectation of grand, or not so grand, failure—and with a sharp eye for the villains of the piece.

Out of that journal Mr. King has fashioned The Whorehouse Papers, a barbed and unbuttoned account of the making of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, set down as no other backstage memoir could be, with all the cayenne and bias of a man by turns mystified, infuriated, and enraptured by life in the theatre. The constant wrangling of creative egos, the tribulations of casting, the disasters of rehearsals, the manic cold sweats of opening night, the sweet shock of success—all of this Mr. King renders in his no-holds-barred story of a show—one of the longest-running in Broadway history—that by his own reckoning has made him "about two-thirds rich."