My Hey-Day; or The Crack-Up of the International Set

(no dust jacket) [modest shelfwear, slight bumping at several corners, a couple of tiny rips in cloth at top of spine; on the front pastedown is a one-time owner's elegant signature and a small stamp reading "Samuel Goldwyn Productions, Inc."]. Hysterical faux-memoir, a breezy narrative by a girl of obscure (and lowly) origins who marries into International Society -- what would have been called the Jet Set if they'd had jets in 1940 -- and flits about the world, breathlessly describing her many adventures: her Hollywood screen test; her Soviet Experiment (she has a chat with "Old Red Joe" in a Moscow park); her visit to the New York World's Fair ("My discovery of The World of Tomorrow -- it seems like yesterday!"); her exploits in Mexico, Greece, India, Tibet, and various far-flung watering holes of the idle rich. All the while, of course, she's wearing fabulously expensive clothes, drinking cocktails like there's no tomorrow, meeting an endless parade of wacky characters with names like Lulu Alabaster and Peter Frenzy Fripp, and just generally having a high old time. The whole thing is a giant put-on -- rather odd, truth be told, considering what was going on in the world in 1940 -- but lots of fun.

Product Info

Publisher: Duell, Sloan & Pearce

Year: (c.1940)

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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