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Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin; Writers Running Wild in the Twenties.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Audiobook Review)

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Date: 20050701
Author:Julian, Janet

BOBBED HAIR AND BATHTUB GIN; WRITERS RUNNING WILD IN THE TWENTIES. Marion Meade. 2004. Read by Lorna Raver. 9 cds. 11 hrs. Blackstone Audiobooks. 0-7861-8298-9. $81.00. Vinyl; content, author notes. A

The lives, loves, witty remarks, anxieties, literary output, and tragedies of Zelda Fitzgerald, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, and Edna Ferber are exhaustively detailed in this catty, chatty, gossipy, engaging story. During that decade Dorothy Parker is fired by Vanity Fair as its drama critic and her marriage to a drunk and morphine addict is not a happy one. Edna St. ...

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