Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin, Marion Meade
Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin, Marion Meade
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Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin
Writers Running Wild in the Twenties

Author: Marion Meade

Narrator: Lorna Raver

Unabridged: 11 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/26/2005


Synopsis

This exuberant group portrait of four extraordinary writersZelda Fitzgerald, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, and Edna Ferbermixes literary scholarship, social history, and gossip to evoke an era that continues to intrigue and captivate listeners.

About Marion Meade

Marion Meade is the author of Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This? She has also written biographies of Woody Allen, Buster Keaton, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Madame Blavatsky, and Victoria Woodhull, as well as two novels about medieval France. She lives in New York City.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Amy on December 05, 2007

what stories about dorothy parker, zeda fitzgerald and edna st. vincent millay aren't interesting? not many. she writes about one more edna too but i forget who. that's why this book wasn't very good. it was really uneven - she'll be writing about dorothy parker and then skip over to some guy who wa......more

Goodreads review by Rebecca on May 03, 2012

A history of four intriguing women, following them from 1920 to 1930 - from a sparkling start to a somewhat less sparkling end (though not everything went awry in the end - just for some...). The author has chosen to present everything chronologically which means the women's stories come together an......more

Goodreads review by Grace on December 06, 2007

As hard as it was to pull myself away from the television this weekend (six soccer matches! eight episodes of Gilmore Girls!), I did also read a book. A non-fiction book, even. This book, Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin, which is a mixed autobiography of four American women writers from the 1920s, Dorot......more

Goodreads review by Abbey on January 29, 2020

POPSUGAR 2020: A book set in the 1920s I loved the format of this history/ biography. Meade traces the lives of Zelda Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Edna Ferber throughout the 1920s. Each chapter is a different year of the decade, and we discover what each woman did within t......more