The Manhattan girls
Paul, Gill, 1960-2022
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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 Leach: 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.
Main title:
The Manhattan girls / Gill Paul.
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Imprint:
London : Avon, 2022.
Collation:
x, 378 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: New York: William Morrow.
ISBN:
9780008530945 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.92GFAF
LC class:
PR6116.A863
Local class:
FT PbkFICFAFPBK
Language:
English
BRN:
3127163
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