Jazz Age Stories ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 1 Jazz Age Stories Explore the world of The Great Gatsby with this mix of fiction and non‐fiction that captures the spirit of the Roaring Twenties. Fiction This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald F. Scott Fitzgerald's romantic and witty first novel, was written when the author was only twenty‐three years old. This semiautobiographical story of the handsome, indulged, and idealistic Princeton student Amory Blaine received critical raves and catapulted Fitzgerald to instant fame. Z: a novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler A tale inspired by the marriage of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald follows their union in defiance of her father's opposition and her scandalous transformation into a Jazz Age celebrity in the literary party scenes of New York, Paris, and the French Riviera. Banana Republican by Eric Rauchway Depicted as braggart, brute, and bore in The Great Gatsby, Tom Buchanan has gotten a bad rap and means to correct the record. So when Tom is dispatched to maneuver among Nicaragua's international corporate intrigues, machine‐gun‐toting rival political parties, and competing American intelligence agencies, he spies his chance. The Paris Wife by Paula McLain Meeting through mutual friends in Chicago, Hadley is intrigued by brash "beautiful boy" Ernest Hemingway, and after a brief courtship and small wedding, they take off for Paris, where Hadley makes a convincing transformation from an overprotected child to a game and brave young woman who puts up with impoverished living conditions and shattering loneliness to prop up her husband's career. The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty A novel about the friendship between an adolescent, pre‐
movie‐star Louise Brooks, and the 36‐year‐old woman who chaperones her to New York City for a summer, in 1922, and how it changes both their lives. The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton Nick Lansing and Susy Branch, a newly married couple with the right connections but little money, devise a shrewd plan to sponge off their wealthy friends, honeymooning in their mansions and villas. How their plan unfolds is a charming comedy of Eros. Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gold In 1920, Charles Carter, known as Carter the Great, who became a master illusionist out of loneliness and desperation, creates the most outrageous stunt of all, involving President Harding‐‐one that could cause his downfall. The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt by Caroline Preston Using an array of vintage memorabilia, a novel told in the form of a scrapbook follows Frankie Pratt, who goes to Vassar in 1920 with dreams of becoming a writer, which becomes a stepping stone to an international adventure. A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion by Ron Hansen A tale based on a true story from 1920s Manhattan follows the affair between voluptuous Ruth Snyder and undergarment salesman Judd Gray, whose plot to kill Ruth's husband triggers an explosive police investigation.
Crossing on the Paris by Dana Gynther This novel chronicles the experiences of three women from different generations and classes whose lives intersect on a majestic ocean liner traveling from Paris to New York in 1921. The Last Nude by Ellis Avery Agreeing to model nude for Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka in 1927 Paris, young American Rafaela Fano inspires the artist's most iconic Jazz Age images and becomes her lover while discovering darker truths about Tamara's private life. The Diviners by Libba Bray Seventeen‐year‐old Evie O'Neill is thrilled when she is exiled from small‐town Ohio to New York City in 1926, even when a rash of occult‐based murders thrusts Evie and her uncle, curator of The Museum of American CT 04/13 Jazz Age Stories ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2 Folklore, Superstition, and the Occult, into the thick of the investigation. Live by Night by Dennis Lehane In 1926, during the Prohibition, Joe Coughlin defies his strict law‐and‐order upbringing by climbing a ladder of organized crime that takes him from Boston to Cuba where he encounters a dangerous cast of characters who are all fighting for their piece of the American dream. The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell Working as a typist for the NYC Police Department in 1923, Rose Baker documents confessions of harrowing crimes and struggles with changing gender roles while clinging to her Victorian ideals and searching for nurturing companionship before becoming obsessed with a glamorous newcomer and her world of bobbed hair, smoking and speakeasies. contributions of fledgling reporter Maurine Watkins against a backdrop of Chicago's Jazz Age culture. Anything goes : a biography of the roaring twenties by Lucy Moore An exhilarating portrait of the era of jazz, glamour, and gangsters. The glitter of 1920s America was seductive, from flappers and wild all‐night parties to the birth of Hollywood and a glamorous gangster‐led crime scene flourishing under Prohibition. Non‐fiction Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition by Daniel Okrent The author explores the origins, implementation, and failure of that great American delusion known as Prohibition. His book explains how Prohibition happened, what life under it was like, and what it did to the country. Flapper : a madcap story of sex, style, celebrity, and the women who made America modern by Joshua Zeitz Examining the lives of Lois Long, Coco Chanel, Zelda Fitzgerald, Clara Bow, and other Jazz Age luminaries, a social history traces the evolution of the new woman of the 1920s and the making of modern culture. Bobbed hair and bathtub gin : writers running wild in the Twenties by Marion Meade Traces the intersecting lives of writers Dorothy Parker, Zelda Fitgerald, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Edna Ferber, describing how their relationships with such men as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Harold Ross, as well as period attitudes about economic independence and sexual freedom, affected their lives. The girls of Murder City : fame, lust, and the beautiful killers who inspired Chicago by Douglas Perry Documents the true stories of Belva Gaertner and Beulah Annan, the women whose sensational murder trials inspired the musical "Chicago," and traces the CT 04/13