Bobbed Hair And Bathtub Gin Writers Running Wild In The Twenties Marion Meade by Marion Meade 9780385533010, 0385533012 instant download after payment.

Capturing the jazz rhythms & desperate gaiety that defined the era, Meade gives us Parker, Fitzgerald, Millay, & Ferber, traces the intersections of their lives, & describes the men (F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edmund Wilson, Harold Ross, & Robert Benchley) who influenced them, loved them, & sometimes betrayed them. 

Here are the social & literary triumphs (Parker's Round Table witticisms appeared almost daily in the newspapers & Ferber & Millay won Pulitzer Prizes) & inevitably the penances each paid: crumbled love affairs, abortions, depression, lost beauty, nervous breakdowns, & finally, overdoses & even madness. 

These literary heroines did what they wanted, said what they thought, living wholly in the moment. They kicked open the door for twentieth-century women writers & set a new model for every woman trying to juggle the serious issues of economic independence, political power, & sexual freedom. 

Meade recreates the excitement, romance, & promise of the 1920s, a decade celebrated for cultural innovation--the birth of jazz, the beginning of modernism--& social & sexual liberation, bringing to light, as well, the anxiety & despair that lurked beneath the nonstop partying & outrageous behavior. 

A vibrant mixture of literary scholarship, social history, & scandal, BOBBED HAIR & BATHTUB GIN is a rich evocation of a period that will forever intrigue & captivate us.