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4.0 out of 5 stars
delightful literary biography,
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This review is from: The Constant Circle: H. L. Mencken and His Friends (Alabama Fire Ant) (Paperback)
this book - like the life of mencken and his friends that it depicts - is astonishing and delightful. mayfield was the best friend of mencken's wife sara haardt. just four little debs growing up in montgomery, alabama: mayfield, hardt. zelda fitzgerald, and tallulah bankhead. the book is gossipy and full of name-dropping, but for all that delightful, and if you're going to drop names, i suppose it might as well be dorothy parker, ambrose bierce, clarence darrow. the wit flows furiously. the boozesoakedness of it all is a bit disturbing in retrospect, particularly when you look at the casualties, such as the fitzgeralds.
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The constant circle;: H. L. Mencken and his friends by Sara Mayfield (Hardcover - 1968)
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