D. J. Taylor give us the biography of 1920s partygoers in "Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age." Who were the revelers? Some names are familiar: the Mitford sisters, Evelyn Waugh, Cecil Beaton, Stephen Tennant. Some are less familiar: Elizabeth Ponsonby and Babe Plunket Greene. But all will be well known by the time you read the last page of this delicious book. A good fictional companion would be Evelyn Waugh's "Vile Bodies."
Listen to the interview at http://www.wvik.org/listings-aboutbooks.htm
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