![]() Scott Fitzgerald, a writer admired by Waugh (who was no soft touch), called his own 'lost' contemporaries 'the beautiful and damned' here, Taylor makes us feel the full force of the reckoning implied in that sad conjunction. ![]() "In Bright Young People Taylor is writing splendid social history, not fiction, and he brings a more tempered and rueful approach, showing the sadness beneath an entire generation's compulsion to waste its promise and dance in the spotlight. richly detailed work." - Caryn James, The New York Times Book Review Just as important, he relates this ultimately elegiac narrative with a surprising amount of intellectual and emotional sympathy." - Dwight Garner, The New York Times ![]() ![]() " tells this story with a good deal of essayistic flair, precision and flyaway wit. ![]()
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