"Young Man Of Manhattan" 1930 BRUSH, Katharine (SOLD)
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BRUSH, Katharine
[325] pp.
Farrar & Rinehart, Incorporated
1930
7 3/4" x 5 1/2"
VG/ VG
Novel about flappers and cads set in New York City. Basis for the 1930 black and white talkie film directed by Monta Bell and starring Ginger Rodgers and Claudette Colbert.
This was one on the list of top ten best-selling novels of 1930, and Paramount adapted it into a film starring Claudette Colbert, Norman Foster, and Ginger Rogers. The protagonist is a fast-talking, hard-drinking New York sports reporter who falls in love and marries a fellow journalist, but that occurs in the first few chapters. Most of the book concerns their subsequent struggle to make sense of their marriage and careers. The author was an O. Henry Award-winner who is best known today for her New Yorker short story “The Birthday Party” and for her book Red-Headed Woman, which was adapted into a classic film starring Jean Harlow.
“He felt a little sad when he had finished [her article]. It was a little cruel, somehow, that she could write so well. Better than he. Much better.”
--Katharine Brush