Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties
by:
Marion Meade (author)
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780385533010 (0385533012)
Publish date: August 11th 2009
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
Writing,
History,
Language,
Literature,
Books About Books,
Feminism,
American History,
Biography Memoir,
Womens Studies
You can read my review/synopsis at: http://www.suite101.com/content/bobbed-hair-and-bathtub-gin---women-in-the-twenties-a372613
I'm wondering if I would have enjoyed this book better in print. I found the transitions between the 4 different people a bit jarring. The parts I was able to focus on were very interesting, but unfortunately it wasn't too hard to drift off thinking of other things while listening.This has made me...
Told through the tangled lives of four free-spirited but very different women in the same forward thinking, hard drinking New York literary circle, Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin is a brisk social history of 1920’s. There’s the surprisingly fragile Dorothy Parker, a scathingly clever but not especia...
One of my all-time favorite books about Bohemian life in the early 20th century. I read this my Freshman year of college, and I think it partially informed my choice of becoming an art major.
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