Dry Martini: A Gentleman Turns to Love

by John Thomas

Book Overview

The upper Bohemia, the Right Bank of Paris in the 1920s, is the setting of this important social document.

Dry Martini, Thomas's only published novel, epitomizes the Right Bank of Paris in the early 1920s. The principal characters are American. Mr. Quimby, a man of wealth, devoted to women, com­fort, and dry martinis, has his life upset by the appearance of his twenty-two-year-old daughter by his former wife. Feeling...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809306611
• ISBN13: 9780809306619
• Release Date: April 1974
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.3" x 7.5"