Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation - Brossura

Mackrell, Judith

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0230768903 ISBN 13: 9780230768901

Casa editrice: Macmillan, 2013

Riassunto

Glamorized, mythologized and demonized - the women of the 1920s prefigured the 1960s in their determination to reinvent the way they lived. Flappers is in part a biography of that restless generation: starting with its first fashionable acts of rebellion just before the Great War, and continuing through to the end of the decade when the Wall Street crash signal led another cataclysmic world change. It focuses on six women who between them exemplified the range and daring of that generation's spirit. Diana Cooper, Nancy Cunard, Tallulah Bankhead, Zelda Fitzgerald, Josephine Baker and Tamara de Lempicka were far from typical flappers. Although they danced the Charleston, wore fashionable clothes and partied with the rest of their peers, they made themselves prominent among the artists, icons, and heroines of their age. Talented, reckless and willful, with personalities that transcended their class and background, they re-wrote their destinies in remarkable, entertaining and tragic ways. And between them they blazed the trail of the New Woman around the world.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0230768903
• ISBN 13: 9780230768901
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 480