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The Manhattan girls : a novel of Dorothy Parker and her friends
- Title
- The Manhattan girls : a novel of Dorothy Parker and her friends / Gill Paul.
- Author
- Paul, Gill, 1960-
- Publication
- New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022]
- ©2022
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 23-47 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- x, 381, 20 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- In this 1920s version of Sex and the City, Dorothy Parker and three other extraordinary women form a bridge group that grows into a firm friendship as they help each other get over setbacks while jazz music flows through the air and bathtub gin fills their glasses.
- New York City 1921: The war is over, fashions are daring, and bootleg liquor is abundant. Here four extraordinary women form a bridge group that grows into a firm friendship. Dorothy Parker: renowned wit, member of the Algonquin Round Table, and more fragile than she seems. Jane Grant: first female reporter for the New York Times, and determined to launch a new magazine she calls The New Yorker. Winifred Lenihan: beautiful and talented Broadway actress, a casting-couch target. And Peggy Leech: magazine assistant by day, brilliant novelist by night. Their romances flourish and falter while their goals sometimes seem impossible to reach and their friendship deepens against the backdrop of turbulent New York City, where new speakeasies open and close, jazz music flows through the air, and bathtub gin fills their glasses. They gossip, they comfort each other, and they offer support through the setbacks. But their biggest challenge is keeping their dear friend Dottie safe from herself.
- Subject
- Parker, Dorothy, 1893-1967 > Fiction
- Grant, Jane C., 1892-1972 > Fiction
- Lenihan, Winifred, -1964 > Fiction
- Leech, Margaret, 1893-1974 > Fiction
- Grant, Jane C., 1892-1972
- Leech, Margaret, 1893-1974
- Parker, Dorothy, 1893-1967
- Female friendship > Fiction
- Nineteen twenties > Fiction
- Female friendship
- Nineteen twenties
- Women's friendships
- Friendships
- Homosociality
- New York (N.Y.) > Fiction
- New York (State) > New York
- Genre/Form
- Historical fiction.
- Biographical fiction.
- Novels.
- Fiction.
- Note
- "P.S. insights, interviews & more ..."--Back of cover.
- Call Number
- JFD 23-47
- ISBN
- 9780063161757
- 0063161753
- OCLC
- 1338692061
- Author
- Paul, Gill, 1960- author.
- Title
- The Manhattan girls : a novel of Dorothy Parker and her friends / Gill Paul.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022]
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- JFD 23-47