Ladies of the Lounges

By Christine Strevinsky

"Ladies of the Lounges is set in the early 1970s, a time when there indeed was a department store named Holmes in New Orleans which observed the amenities of serving coffee to its early customers.

It is the story of one day in the lives of six elderly women whose paths cross simply because all of them happen to be the aficionados of this particular store. Two of them are immigrants, the rest native Southerners, New Orleanians. In the course of that one day their lives change dramatically in ways none of them could have foreseen."

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Oct 1, 2002
• ISBN: 9781453582848

Christine Strevinsky

Christine Strevinsky was born in Poland where she grew up under the Nazi occupation. In 1949, she emigrated to the United States where she lived first in Chicago, and then in the New Orleans area. She has been a welder, sausage stuffer, waitress and mail inserter.; currently, she is a college English instructor. Her first novel, The Dark Hour of Noon, the story of child guerillas in war-torn Poland, was published when she was an undergraduate at the University of New Orleans. She has also had poetry published in various English journals, most recently in the Louisiana Journal of College English.

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