Save me the waltz
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About This Book
"The story of a beautiful Southern belle desperately determined to become a great ballerina...of her violent, passionate marriage to a famous artist, her love affair with a young French aviator on the Riviera...of wild parties, drunken brawls, insane escapades, the dissolute, destructive pleasures that gutted the lives of the most famous couple of the flaming twenties, as one headed toward alcoholism, the other toward madness..."
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Sign InFiction, biographicalNineteen twentiesFictionBallerinasMarried peopleTriangles (Interpersonal relations)Social life and customsAmerican fictionAnnées vingt (Vingtième siècle)Romans, nouvellesCouples mariésTriangle (Relations humaines)
The Swinging Light
Book Details
First Published
1953
Pages
225 pages
Rating
2.3 / 5
Ratings
3
Editions
10
Publisher
Cape
Language
ENG
Status
Published
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