The "Charm" Girl

[a solid clean copy, modestly shelfworn on bottom edge and at top of spine, one-time owner's name and address on front pastedown; jacket shows a little wear along top edge, light dampstain to upper part of spine, extending a bit onto the rear panel]. (cartoon illustrations) Sub-titled (on the jacket) "the SCREAM-LINE correspondence of a radio charmer and her girl friend," this is an amusing and topical entry in the primarily American sub-sub-genre of the epistolary comic novel that might be described as "letters from a (not-so) dumb gal (or guy)." (The same well was notably tapped by Ring Lardner ("You Know Me Al"), and really started flowing after the success of Anita Loos' "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" in 1925.) This saga's protagonist is Della Dean, "a simple girl from Alicedale, Virginia," who wins a nationwide contest and goes off to the Big Apple, where she wins fame and notoriety and lots of male attention by hawking Bubble Flakes Face Soap on the radio. "Intimately illustrated" with cartoon drawings rendered in a sort of low-rent New Yorker "sophisticated" style (dames in clingy outfits, usually in the company of mustachioed middle-aged men).

Product Info

Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation

Year: (c.1935)

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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