There was a lot to like about this book: trains, restaurants, business philosophy, Americana, family history, the Southwest. It is long and it's a great credit to the author that I read steadily through till the end rather than skipping around, which I think is possible with a subject so enormous...
At age seventeen, Gia Carangi was working the counter at her father's Philadelphia luncheonette, in Hoagie City. Within a year, Gia was one of the top models of the late 1970's, gracing the covers of Cosmopolitan and Vogue, partying at New York's Studio 54 and the Mudd Club while redefining the i...