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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, many—from
Cecil Beaton to Nancy Mitford and John Betjeman—would
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.
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