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the original sex and the city for the flapper girls of nyc. delightfully modern in its themes, though still a delicious time capsule of the period - alexander cocktails at the speakeasy, late night cab rides with your lover, alligator pears for lunch, and expensive fur coats to impress your ex-husband. ursula parrot, you lovely woman, you!

“Men told Lucia I was lovely looking, but completely cold. Why cold? I let them kiss me when they must, in cabs, dancing in hot nightclubs, at parties. They were not real. Neither was the office. Clothes were real. I bought many clothes so that, when Peter called up, I could say “come over instantly� and I would be marvellously dressed. I dressed carefully, always, because I might meet some friend of Peter’s, who would go back to him and say, “I saw Patricia; she was looking beautiful.� Then he would call up sooner.�