Centerfold - Hardcover

by Sharon Rose Anderson (Author)

When her father, who is her accompanist, collapses on a Paris stage, Spanish cellist, Angelica de Larra flees the music world for Montreal, where, during the course of four days, over two thousand girls will be interviewed at the new Playboy Club to be trained by Keith Hefner as Bunny Girls.
Despite her doubts, Angelica becomes a Playboy Bunny, beating out young women from the office, factory and farm, along with sophisticated starlets of fashion and cinema. She throws herself whole-heartedly into the world of The Club, while trying to keep her music past secret, but her rebellious thoughts often wander back to her beloved cello and her music career. Thrust from the exciting world of the concert stage, Angelica must remake her new image at the expense of destroying her real self.
Soon she falls in love with a celebrity patron of The Club, friend of Hugh Hefner, and one of the most powerful men in Montreal. Jealous, unwilling to share and rigidly moralistic, her lover, with a mysterious agenda, plots to get Angelica fired and end her career as a Playboy Bunny. While sharing the hopes, dreams and fears of her Bunny sisters, Angelica discovers the deep, dark side of this competitive world where jealousy and anger threaten her career and her life.

Despite her doubts, Angelica becomes a Playboy Bunny, beating out young women from the office, factory and farm, along with sophisticated starlets of fashion and cinema. She throws herself whole-heartedly into the world of The Club, while trying to keep her music past secret, but her rebellious thoughts often wander back to her beloved cello and her music career. Thrust from the exciting world of the concert stage, Angelica must remake her new image at the expense of destroying her real self. Soon she falls in love with a celebrity patron of The Club, friend of Hugh Hefner, and one of the most powerful men in Montreal. Jealous, unwilling to share and rigidly moralistic, her lover, with a mysterious agenda, plots to get Angelica fired and end her career as a Playboy Bunny. While sharing the hopes, dreams and fears of her Bunny sisters, Angelica discovers the deep, dark side of this competitive world where jealousy and anger threaten her career and her life.

Author Biography

Sharon Rose Anderson plunged into the exotic life of a 1960s Bunny Girl in the glorious heyday of the first Canadian Playboy Club in Montreal. Chosen from among 2000 girls, Sharon bonded with glamorous women who dazzled both male and female patrons of The Club.

Sharon Rose Anderson is the author of a pioneering work on heart disease, Mitral Valve Prolapse: Benign Syndrome?and two other novels: Jangala: A Wild Place In The Heart and Love In The Gardens Of Manhattan.