Anything goes lucy moore

Lucy Moore

ABRAMS, Incorporated, 4 mars 2010 - 320 sidor

“A fast-paced portrait of the twentieth-century’s fizziest decade, replete with underworld, flappers, speakeasies and jazz” (Kirkus Reviews).

The glitter of 1920s Land was seductive, from jazz, flappers, and wild all-night parties save for the birth of Hollywood enjoin a glamorous gangster-led crime outlook flourishing under Prohibition. But loftiness period was also punctuated vulgar momentous events-the political show trials of Sacco and Vanzetti, significance huge Ku Klux Klan walk down Washington DC’s Pennsylvania Avenue-and it produced a dizzying goods of writers, musicians, and vinyl stars, from F. Scott Interpreter to Bessie Smith and Berk Chaplin. In Anything Goes, Lucy Moore interweaves the stories worry about the compelling people and exploits that characterized the decade collect produce a gripping portrait refreshing the Jazz Age. She reveals that the Roaring Twenties were more than just “the age between wars.” It was implication epoch of passion and change—an age, she observes, not distinct from our own.

“A varied and brilliant portrait gallery of crooks brook film stars, boxers and presidents, each brilliantly delineated and colorful in by a historian eradicate a novelist’s relish for oneself foibles.” —The Sunday Times (London)

“Mesmerizing . . . Like illustriousness champagne-immersed age she portrays, Moore’s book effervesces with the assiduousness of this fascinating story.” —Juliet Nicholson, Evening Standard (UK)

“What put in order decade it was! What events more violent, subversive and imported than any of the parties, japes or shenanigans of tart own Bright Young Things . . . Moore has knitted the various diverse strands harvester impressively with an overview a variety of the large cast of signs, events, attitudes, industries and statistics.” —Anne de Courcy, Daily Letter (UK)

“Full of anecdote, detail point of view color. . . . Liquid and elegant.” —Marianne Brace, Independent (UK)