Fiction
Alice In Ultraland
by Simone Corday
Description
Alice takes you to the nighttime world of a burlesque theater, haunted by a banshee and alluring stripper ghosts, the scene of an exotic dancer's tragic death. Plucky stripper Alice leads an uprising of her coworkers. They travel with their ghost girlfriends to Frank Sinatra’s haunted casino filled with Rat Pack era ghosts such as film siren Marilyn Monroe and Frank himself. The audacious strippers are after Mafia money hidden by the badass lover of a beautiful ghost stripper to fund their own new club. Follow Alice to a secret gated ghost community on Telegraph Hill, to haunted San Francisco and Lake Tahoe where phantoms from past centuries interact. Alice In Ultraland takes you into the strip club dressing room where dancers gossip, plot and share their obsessions to a chain of supernatural events and a surprising outcome.
Will Alice and her friends prevail over their adversaries? Will Alice fulfill her fondest dreams? By turns irreverent, funny, touching and haunting, Alice In Ultraland is a ghost story like no other.
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Endorsements
"Unique! An original triumph of the imagination!
Author Simone Corday masterfully weaves and occasionally careens between the colorful worlds of vibrantly alive exotic dancers and the ethereal
realms of the supernatural featuring conjurers, psychics, and the famed historic spirits of San Francisco and beyond.
Wow! It’s a galaxy you’ve never visited before. Ms. Corday takes us to a world where different realities exist in the same time and space, sometimes becoming aware of each other, other times, not.
It’s a mystery. It’s a ride. It’s a good yarn!"
Reviewed by Howie Gordon . . . aka the ghost of Richard Pacheco
Reviews
"In Corday's (9 ½ Years Behind the Green Door, 2011) fantasy novel, dancers at a San Francisco burlesque theater--some living, some dead--go in search of a mobster's money.
Alice starts working at the Moulin Rouge with her friend and fellow dancer Deirdre, who's just confided to her that she's pregnant and that the club owner's son, Tommy, is the father. Soon after, Deirdre reveals the pregnancy to Tommy, who eschews responsibility and starts having an affair with a different dancer. An ensuing argument ends with Deirdre losing her footing and falling down a set of stairs, killing her. Later, Alice's friend Miranda casts a spell of protection on her fellow dancers when the club's ownership tries to force them into freelance employment. However, the spell has the unexpected effect of conjuring Deirdre's ghost as well as those of other long-dead dancers. Alice and her new phantom pals soon hatch a plan to go to the Cal Neva Lodge in Tahoe, where they plan to search for Mafia cash hidden there long ago by one of the ghost's mobster boyfriends. (They plan to open a new club. . . with the loot.) The ghost of Cal Neva's former owner, Frank Sinatra, haunts the club, and the group later comes face to face with the spirit of Marilyn Monroe. This engaging supernatural adventure will particularly appeal to fans of literature set in the Bay Area, as the characters travel extensively around familiar parts of San Francisco and its environs in Alice's Volkswagen van. It will also interest those with an enthusiasm for burlesque-theater history. The story is basically split into two sections: the group's journey to find the Mafia money, and the bureaucratic process of opening up its new nightclub. In both parts, though, Corday makes sure that there's a lot going on, as the dancers deal with ghost hunters filming a reality show; the return of Alice's estranged lover; a new ghost friend, checking in on the family that he left behind; a break-in at Alice's house; and even a lost cat.
An eventful and enjoyable romp."--Kirkus Review
"Unique and otherworldly, Alice In Ultraland brings the burlesque nightlife alive, with a supernatural twist. . . .filled with unpredictable adventures, famous ghosts, and a sexy, mysterious romance between Alice and her longtime love, Adrian. . . Alice In Ultraland is a quirky take on the backstage world of strippers, an unexpected ghost story, a mystery, and a romance. It will appeal to open-minded readers seeking an unconventional tale.--Blue Ink Review
"An exciting look into the world of burlesque dancer, Alice. Corday incorporates a supernatural touch to this adventure as Alice and her friends set out on a voyage throughout California where they meet ghosts, ghost hunters, and the banshee of the Moulin Rouge. Wicked fun with an amazing cast of characters." -- San Francisco Book Review
Author Biography
Simone Corday danced at the Mitchell Brothers O’Farrell Theater in San Francisco during the 1980s, when it was a countercultural hot spot where gonzo writer Hunter Thompson was the honorary Night Manager. She was a girlfriend of porn king Artie Mitchell from 1982 until he was killed by his brother Jim in 1991. She also worked for the Mitchell Brothers booking agent for two years. Corday has been interviewed about the Mitchell Brothers many times, including on an E!-True Hollywood Story. Her pieces relating to her friend Hunter Thompson appear on Marty Flynn’s Hunter Thompson resource site HSTBOOKS.ORG. Her book 9 ½ Years Behind the Green Door, A Memoir: A Mitchell Brothers Stripper Remembers Her Lover Artie Mitchell, Hunter S. Thompson, and the Killing That Rocked San Francisco was published in 2007. She has an MA in English from the University of California. She has worked a variety of jobs and lived in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1975. Simone Corday is her pen name. Before writing Alice In Ultraland, Corday did research, visited sites in the book, and watched burlesque shows. She lives in San Francisco with two impish rescue cats. Alice In Ultraland is her second book.
Copyright Information
Copyright 2018 by Simone Corday
Bibliographic Information
- Publisher/Imprint Create Space, KDP, Ingram Spark / Denizen Press
- Publication Date August 2018
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781732513617
- Publication Country or regionUnited States
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 15.95 USD
- Pages256
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusSelf-Published
- Original Language TitleEnglish
- Copyright Year2018
- Dimensions6 x 9 inches
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