Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s
New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 605 pp. with bibliographical essay, index. Illustrated with photographs.This fascinating, unique take on New York City history, author Ann Douglas presents a portrait of the soul of a generation, the story of the men and women who made New York the capitol of American literature, music, and language in the 1920s. The book focuses especially on brilliant and diverse artists---F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zora Neale Hurston, Dorothy Parker, Walter Winchell, Duke Ellington, the Gershwins, Irving Berlin, Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes among them. A strikingly original interpretation that brings the Jazz Age to life in a new wqay. Fine / fine. Item #E32523
ISBN: 0374116202
Price: $29.95