The book’s main action really gets going when one of Lorelei’s male friends, Mr Eisman, ‘the Button King’, sends Lorelei to Europe with a view to broadening her horizons – a means of furthering her education if you like. So Mr Eisman gave me quite a nice string of pearls and he gave Dorothy a diamond pin and we all went to the Colony for dinner and we all went to a show and supper at the Trocadero and we all spent quite a pleasant evening. Lorelei likes to think of herself as being very refined, someone who is part of a particular social set along with everything this confers – more of that later… At first sight, Lorelei – a blonde – appears rather witless and ditzy, while Dorothy – a brunette – seems sharper, more outspoken and more irreverent in her views. Lorelei and Dorothy are very different from one another. (You can read a little more about her career here.) The book was an instant success on its release in 1925 – the individual sections had previously been published in Harper’s Bazaar, so the market was ripe for its appearance as a complete text.īlondes features Lorelei Lee, a young American girl about town, and her best friend, Dorothy Shaw. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes was the debut novel of the American screenwriter and author Anita Loos. Smart, engaging and uproariously funny – another great summer read for me. What a marvellous novella this turned out to be.
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