The Splendid Drunken Twenties
Subtitle: Selections from the Daybooks, 1922 - 30
Contributors: Bruce Kellner (Editor)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: May 30, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780252074622
Subjects: American history: from c 1900 -; Biography: general; Cultural studies; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; Social Science; Biography / Autobiography; Sociology; USA; Artists, Architects, Photographers; Literary; United States - 20th Century/20s; Social Science / African-American Studies; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; United States - 20th Century
First sentence: In 1922, after several years of obscurity and periodic penury-Carl Van Vechten's annual volumes of literary and musical criticism had produced little income-he published his first novel, Peter Whiffle: His Life and Works, which proved to be an unexpected best-seller.