•Title: Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse •Year: 2005 •Size (inches): 6.3 x 9.4 •Pages: 266 •Author: Phyllis Diller - Richard Buskin •Publisher:  Penguin Group            Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse is Phyllis Diller’s own story about the struggle and the pain behind the comedy and the success: her Depression-era adolescence; her marriage to the chronically unemployed husband who inspired her most famous comic character, Fang; her desperate attempts to stave off poverty as a professional comic while raising five children; the disastrous club engagements that coincided with homelessness and separation from her young family; and the problems that clouded her stage and screen success when a second marriage unraveled because of her new spouse’s alcoholism and inner demons. ✔️✔️✔️ Cover has some wear and book some soiling.