Parties
A Fiction book. Meh...this was my first foray into Van Vechten. I found the characters to be...
Carl Van Vechten's famed satirical portrait of upper-bohem New Yorkers and Harlem jazz clubs. David Westlake has killed someone, and his wife, so she herself reports, has committed suicide! Hyperbole, the reader quickly perceives, is the common language of these sozzled socialites who spend their nights in Harlem speakeasies and their days in drunken gossip. But people actually do die in this comic novel, and beneath their forgetfulness is an emptiness and longing as deep as that of Hemingway's "lost generation."
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- ISBN: 9780380009862 / 380009862
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Assorted cast of well-to-do New Yorkers spend their days and nights together drinking a really insane amount of alcohol during Prohibition, gossiping, attending parties and drinking. Did I mention the drinking?! A roller coaster ride of a book! The impression Carl Van Vechten is trying to give of New Yorkers in the '20s is a bit heavy-handed - it's no "Vile Bodies" - but I'm reading it because of Van Vechten's renowned career as a critic and art collector. Meh...this was my first foray into Van Vechten. I found the characters to be blunt...boring. Drinking, drinking and more drinking. The small descriptions of New York City saved the book for me.
