num_pages: 416
description: A montage of World War I and Amer­icans in Paris in the 1920s, this novel by John Monk Saunders, author of Wings, is an almost perfect facsimile of the “lost generation” novel—a readable and revealing imitation of the moods of The Sun Also Rises. Whether early Hemingway or vin­tage Hollywood, Single Lady is certain to surprise and delight readers today. As readers of this new edition will dis­cover, John Monk Saunders, a Rhodes Scholar and a highly successful screen­writer (The Dawn Patrol, A Yank at Oxford) peoples his landscape with memorable figures, and has an extraordinarily good ear for dialogue. The story is this: five young ex-war­riors of the sky, Shepard Lambert, Bill Talbot, John Swann, Cary Lockwood, and The Washout, unable to let down from the high nervous pitch of flying and fighting, are adrift in Paris after the Armistice, and seemingly bent on self-destruction. They meet Nikki, who joins them in their spectacular journey through the bars of Paris, the cafés of Lisbon, and the bullring of Madrid, and who becomes part of their strangely disordered lives.
language: English
title: Single Lady
titlecomplete: Single Lady (Lost American Fiction)
genres: Fiction
ratings_count: 11
publisher: Southern Illinois University Press