num_pages: 144
description: If you go looking for it just about halfway uptown and halfway downtown theres this hotel stuck like a pin all the way through the world. Down inside the Artemisia its this mortal coil all over. Earthly delights on every floor.The hotel Artemisia sits on a fantastical 72nd Street in a decade that never was. It is home to a cast of characters creatures and creations unlike any other including especially Zelda Fair who is perfect at being Zelda but who longs for something more. The world of this extraordinary novellaa bootlegger's brew of fairy tales Jazz Age opulence and organized crimeis ruled over by the diminutive eternal sinister Al. Zelda holds her own against the boss or so it seems. But when she faces off against him and his besotted employee Frankie in a deadly game that just might change everything she must bet it all and hope not to loseMultiple-award-winning New York Times bestselling author Catherynne M. Valente once again reinvents a classic in Speak Easy which interprets The Twelve Dancing Princesses if Zelda Fitzgerald waltzed in and stole the show. This Prohibition-Era tale will make heads spin and hearts pound. Its a story as old as time as effervescent as champagne and as dark as the devils basement on a starless night in the city.
language: English
title: Speak Easy
publisher: Subterranean Press