Penguin Drop Caps Butterfield 8, (Hardcover)

from arubabookwoman

"On this Sunday morning in May, this girl who later was to be the cause of a sensation in New York, awoke much too early for her night before...." Set in the early 1930's in New York City, this is the story of the downfall of "party girl" Gloria Wondrous. After a night in his apartment with her ...

from csweder

An interesting book that tells the tale of Gloria Wandrous and her life. The time is 1930, post stock market crash, the depression is looming and speakeasies are the place to be. Gloria is a young woman who the narrator describes would have been a flapper had she been born a mere ten years earlie...

from jeffome

I liked the book but struggled in the early parts trying to keep track of who was who and what the connections between them were.....fascinating depiction of the culture of this social set in NY in the period.......the dialogue made it seem quite real. The story line however, left a little to be ...

from melydia

Wow, is this book ever tedious. The back cover blurb claims that the first scene unleashes a chain of events that can only result in tragedy, so I kept reading to the end in the hope that this meant something would actually happen, but it never really did. I mean, sure, I suppose the death of a c...

from sgerbic

Reviewed Oct 2004 Found a stack of Dad's cheap paperbacks and I seemed to remember this title. I made it though the book even though the pages were falling all over the place. The writing style was very detailed with way too many descriptions. O'Hara begins talking about a group of people without...