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The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
January 2009
On Sale: January 6, 2009
384 pages
ISBN: 0374116830
EAN: 9780374116835
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Before the media circus of Britney, Paris, and our modern obsession with celebrity, there were the Bright Young People, a voraciously pleasure-seeking band of bohemian party-givers and blue-blooded socialites who romped through the gossip columns of 1920s London. Evelyn Waugh immortalized their slang, their pranks, and their tragedies in his novels, and over the next half century, manyβfrom Cecil Beaton to Nancy Mitford and John Betjemanβwould become household names. But beneath the veneer of hedonism and practical jokes was a tormented generation, brought up in the shadow of war. Sparkling talent was too often brought low by alcoholism and addiction. Drawing on the virtuosic and often wrenching writings of the Bright Young People themselves, the biographer and novelist D. J. Taylor has produced an enthralling account of an age of fleeting brilliance.
 Media BuzzAll Things Considered - January 24, 2009
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