Long before Helen Fielding's 'Bridget Jones', Anita Loos came up with a young woman's diary as the perfect medium for satirical romance.
Beginning, 'A gentleman friend and I were dining at the Ritz last evening and he said that if I took a pencil and a paper and put down all of my thoughts it would make a book'. Or modernism arrives in America.
Lorelei Lee is an airhead and plaything but scratch the surface and she is a determined, resourceful strategist whose diary illuminates gender roles, politics and power in 1920s America.
Intimately illustrated by Ralph Barton.
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