Cover; Also by Robert Goolrick; Title; Copyright; Dedication; 1 The Invention of Money; 2 Belated; 3 Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death; 4 The Sweetheart of My Youth; 5 The Place I Really Live; 6 One Reason I Don't Go to the Beach Anymore; 7 Carmela in the Flats at Thirty-One; 8 The Origin of the Species; 9 The Wages of Sin; 10 Fanelli Does Funtown; 11 Ball Gowns of the Eighties; 12 The Do's and Don'ts of Rising and Falling; 13 Trotmeier Takes a Drive; 14 Touching Strangers; 15 Coming Home to Roost; 16 Packing Up the Circus; 17 In the Grip; 18 Table Hopping
19 What They Sing About, When They Sing in Heaven20 The Eleven-Foot Hooker Walks the Walk; 21 The Fall of Princes; 22 She Walks in Beauty; 23 Coda; Acknowledgments