Bobbed Hair And Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties

by Marion Meade

Overview

In her exuberant new work, Marion Meade presents a portrait of four extraordinary writers-Dorothy Parker, Zelda Fitzgerald, Edna St.Vincent Millay, and Edna Ferber- whose loves, lives, and literary endeavors embodied the spirit of the 1920s.

These literary heroines did what they wanted and said what they thought, living wholly in the moment. They kicked open the door for twentieth-century women writers and set a new model for every woman trying to juggle the serious issues of economic independence, political power, and sexual freedom. Here are the social and literary triumphs and inevitably the penances paid: crumbled love affairs, abortions, depression, lost beauty, nervous breakdowns, and finally, overdoses and even madness.

A vibrant mixture of literary scholarship, social history, and scandal, Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin is a rich evocation of a period that will forever intrigue and captivate us.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780156030595
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	06/06/2005
Series:	Harvest Book Series
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	5.31(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

MARION MEADE is the author of Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This? and Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties. She has also written biographies of Woody Allen, Buster Keaton, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Madame Blavatsky, and Victoria Woodhull, as well as two novels about medieval France.

Editorial Reviews

PRAISE FOR BOBBED HAIR AND BATHTUB GIN
"Reading Meade's book is like looking at a photo album while listening to a witty insider reminisce about the images. Her writing is bright, her language charged with gritty details . . . gossipy tidbits . . . and accomplished one-liners."-SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

"Stories like these are what made many of our generation long to be writers. Paris! Greenwich Village! Free love! . . . Glamour, and looks, and the sure sense that if we joined that insouciant fraternity/sorority we'd be better than the rest-so much better." -THE WASHINGTON POST
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