"Heart In A Hurricane" 1927 SHAW, Charles G.
$250
SHAW, Charles G.
[201] pp.
Brentano's
1927
7 3/4" x 5 1/2"
w/ drawings by Ralph Barton
VG/ VG
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The author was a Jazz Age figure, as was the illustrator, Barton, best-known for Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
Charles G. Shaw’s 1927 novel Heart in a Hurricane has a great deal in common with Fillmore Hyde’s The Ritz Carltons from the same year. They’re both grounded in comic stereotypes of the idle rich — specifically, the idle rich of Manhattan in the midst of the Roaring Twenties. Almost every character wears a top hat, white tie, and tails, or plus-fours, or an evening gown. If anyone appears in tweed, you can bet they’re not quite our type, no matter what their other qualities might be. The Ritz Carltons features illustrations by Rea Irvin, inventor of the New Yorker’s signature character, Eustace Tilley; Heart in a Hurricane features illustrations by Ralph Barton, whose work graced New Yorker covers nearly as often as Irvin’s and Peter Arno’s in the Twenties.