Book description
One of the Bright Young Things in that brilliant and stimulating era
between the wars, Alec Waugh remembers 1931 as being a year of firsts.
It was the year he attended his first garden party, the year he made his
first transatlantic phone call, the year he became a member of the MCC.
But it was also a year that marked the end of one epoch and the
beginning of another, far less frivolous. Nostalgic for the best of that
time, Alec Waugh recalls the writers he knew and met here and in America
- Somerset Maugham, A J Cronin, John O'Hara, Thurber and Dorothy Parker.
Here is an insight into the literary and publishing world of the
thirties through an account of the author's own experiences. We hear of
Alec Waugh's life at leisure with stories of his family and brother
Evelyn, his affairs (with Ruth in California, with Mary in Villefranche,
with Elizabeth in London), the wild parties, the tours round the
speakeasies, the Atlantic crossings and the fascinating people he met on
them. One of the Bright Young Things in that brilliant and stimulating
era between the wars, Alec Waugh remembers 1931 as being a year of
firsts. It was the year he attended his first garden party, the year he
made his first transatlantic phone call, the year he became a member of
the MCC. But it was also a year that marked the end of one epoch and the
beginning of another, far less frivolous. Nostalgic for the best of that
time, Alec Waugh recalls the writers he knew and met here and in America
- Somerset Maugham, A J Cronin, John O'Hara, Thurber and Dorothy Parker.
Here is an insight into the literary and publishing world of the
thirties through an account of the author's own experiences. We hear of
Alec Waugh's life at leisure with stories of his family and brother
Evelyn, his affairs (with Ruth in California, with Mary in Villefranche,
with Elizabeth in London), the wild parties, the tours round the
speakeasies, the Atlantic crossings and the fascinating people he met on
them.
