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Among the Bright Young Things for the reason that brilliant and rousing era between your wars, Alec Waugh remembers 1931 as being a year of firsts. It had been the entire year he attended his first garden party, the entire year he made his first transatlantic phone call, the entire year he became a member of the MCC. But it was also a year that marked the end of 1 epoch and the beginning of another, far less frivolous. Nostalgic for the best of this time, Alec Waugh recalls the freelance writers he understood and attained here and in the us - Somerset Maugham, A. J. Cronin, John O'Hara, Thurber, and Dorothy Parker. Here is an insight in to the literary and publishing world of the '30s via an profile of the author's own activities. We listen to of Alec Waugh's life at leisure with testimonies of his family and brother Evelyn, his affairs (with Ruth in California, with Mary in Villefranche, with Elizabeth in London), the wild parties, the tours across the speakeasies, the Atlantic crossings, and the amazing people he attained on them. Alec Waugh (1898-1981) was a United kingdom novelist created in London and educated at Sherborne Consumer School, Dorset. Waugh's first book, The Loom of Young ones (1917), is a semi-autobiographical profile of public-school life that caused some controversy at that time and resulted in his expulsion. Waugh was the only young man ever before to be expelled from Old Shirburnian Contemporary society. Despite setting up this record, Waugh went on to become the successful author of over 50 works, and lived in many spectacular places throughout his life which later became the settings for a few of his texts. He was also a noted wines connoisseur and campaigned to help make the cocktail party a regular feature of 1920s sociable life.
