GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES
Anita Loos
Condition: Very good. Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics edition. Clean copy with tight binding and minimal edgewear. Pages lightly toned with age.
About the Book:
Wicked, glamorous, and utterly self-assured, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1925) is Anita Looss brilliant satire of the Jazz Age told through the irrepressible voice of Lorelei Lee, the funnest Bad Blonde in American literature. Presented as Loreleis diary, the novel chronicles her adventures with her friend Dorothy as they tour Europe, collecting admirers (and diamonds) from Dr. Froyd to the Prince of Wales.
Beneath its wit and charm lies a razor-sharp critique of gender, money, and sexual politics in an age that worships appearances. As Edith Wharton remarked, Loos had written the great American novel one that manages to lampoon both high society and the myths of romantic innocence.
About the Author:
Anita Loos (18881981) was an American novelist, screenwriter, and playwright, a pioneering woman in early Hollywood. She wrote scripts for D. W. Griffith and became one of the most successful humorists of her time. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes made her an international celebrity, later adapted for stage and screen, most famously the 1953 film starring Marilyn Monroe. Its sequel, But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes, continued Loreleis misadventures with equal sparkle.
Edition Details:
Publisher: Penguin Books, Twentieth-Century Classics series.
Cover image: still from The Understanding Heart (1927 Turner Entertainment Co., Ren. 1955 Loews Inc. / British Film Institute).
