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Bright young people : the lost generation of London's jazz age / D.J. Taylor

By:

Taylor, D.J. (David John), , 1960-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 2009, c2007.Edition: 1st American edDescription: xvi, 361 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:

9780374116835

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

305.242 TAY

LOC classification:

DA566.4 .T39 2009

Summary: 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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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	305.242 TAY (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		012692

"Originally published in 2007 by Chatto & Windus, a division of the Random House Group Limited, Great Britain"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-345) and index.

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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