The Manhattan girls, a novel of Dorothy Parker and her friends, Gill Paul
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The Manhattan girls, a novel of Dorothy Parker and her friends, Gill Paul
Language
eng
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no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
The Manhattan girls
Oclc number
1308411395
Responsibility statement
Gill Paul
Sub title
a novel of Dorothy Parker and her friends
Summary
New York City, 1921: The war is over, fashions are daring, and bootleg liquor is served wherever you go. It is here that four extraordinary women form a bridge group that grew 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, who is determined to launch a new magazine. The Broadway actress Winifred Lenihan, beautiful, talented, and a casting-couch target. And Peggy Leech, magazine assistant by day, brilliant novelist by night. Romances flourish and falter, while their goals sometimes seem impossible to reach, and their group 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, they offer support through the setbacks. But their biggest challenge is keeping their dear friend Dottie safe from herself..
Target audience
adult
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- Contract bridge -- Fiction
- Nineteen twenties -- Fiction
- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Novels
- Lenihan, Winifred, -1964 -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Female friendship -- Fiction
- Young women -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction
- Young women -- Fiction
- New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
- Parker, Dorothy, 1893-1967 -- Fiction
- Leech, Margaret, 1893-1974 -- Fiction
- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Large type books
- Biographical fiction
- Grant, Jane C., 1892-1972 -- Fiction
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- Contract bridge -- Fiction
- Nineteen twenties -- Fiction
- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Novels
- Lenihan, Winifred, -1964 -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Female friendship -- Fiction
- Young women -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction
- Young women -- Fiction
- New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
- Parker, Dorothy, 1893-1967 -- Fiction
- Leech, Margaret, 1893-1974 -- Fiction
- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Large type books
- Biographical fiction
- Grant, Jane C., 1892-1972 -- Fiction
- Content1
- Author1
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