Our Hearts Were Young And Gay: An Unforgettable Comic Chronicle of Innocents Abroad in the 1920s
A Classics, Biography, Travel book. To Mr. Blot, who went through life an unconscious example of the...
None of Cornelia Otis Skinner's many accomplishments as actress or author came close to matching the phenomenal popularity of Our Hearts Were Young and Gay, which appeared in 1942 and went through more than twenty printings--a total of more than two million copies. A collaboration with her former Bryn Mawr classmate Emily Kimbrough, the memoir charmingly--and quite comically--details the pair's youthful trip abroad two decades earlier, when they were almost out of their teens and on their own for the first time. From its very beginning, the flavor of the work is deliciously evident, as Emily surprises a naked man in his hotel room before the girls have even embarked. From Montreal to London to Paris, episode follows upon episode, absurdity upon absurdity: shipwreck in the Saint Lawrence River, an astonishingly funny game of deck tennis, Emily hitting a drowning man with a deck chair, Cornelia breaking out with the measles,...
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To Mr. Blot, who went through life an unconscious example of the raison d'tre of the British Empire, a shipwreck was merely one of the many things to be ignored. His was a calming influence. Cornelia Otis Skinner, Our Hearts Were Young and Gay: An Unforgettable Comic Chronicle of Innocents Abroad in the 1920s //
This was an enjoyable, breezy account of two college-aged girls' trip to France. It would be interesting to read this in conjunction with some sixties-era road trip book! The girls in this story were very goofy, in an endearing sort of way. An interesting kind of independence--one girl's parents actually travelled with them, but kept... Cornelia Otis Skinner, an American actress, writer and screenwriter co-wrote Our Hearts were Young and Gay with her good friend Emily Kimbrough, a memoir about their travels in Europe in the 1920s. It is difficult to see where Kimbroughs collaboration is exactly as the book is written in Skinners first person narrative. None of that... This book means so much to me: it's an intro to European travel, a window onto another world, a memoir of adolescent girlhood and a comic tour de force. The movie adaptation is horrid and ruins the bubble of mirth that fills this book. I've read this more times than I can count since age 13.
