Bernice Bobs Her Hair by F.Scott Fitzgerald - USED Paperback Classics

Set amid golf courses, country clubs, and big houses where flappers dance at cotillions, the short stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald brilliantly portray the Jazz Age as seen by the "smart set."  All the works in this new collection come from his first year as a professional writer.  It was 1919; Fitzgerald was 22; and the stories he published in The Saturday Evening Post and elsewhere remain some of the best in American literature.  From the fun of "Myra Meets His Family," in which a husband-hunting beauty ha a dirty trick played on her, to the superb "Bernice Bobs Her Hair," where a country debutante gents remade and betrayed by a sophisticated cousin, this is witty, cynical writing about extravagant living and daring times.  Bet here, too, is an undercurrent of unhappiness and unease, lost ideals, and "new" women in a world that allows them love affairs, liquor, and short skirts, but nonetheless requires them to focus on finding wealthy husbands.  Still sparking and fresh, these tales of class, money, and social mores are quintessential Fitzgerald.