Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age

by D.J. Taylor

Book Overview

D.J. Taylor's Bright Young People offers a scintillating portrait of 1920s London and the birth of the cult of celebrity.

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374532117
• ISBN13: 9780374532116
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.3"