Последние издания книг Кристофера Морли

Indipendente e coraggiosa, Kitty Foyle è la tipica donna in carriera americana. Lavora per la bizzarra Delphine Detaille, creatrice di un famoso profumo, e condivide la casa con altre ragazze, grandi chiacchierone, fumatrici e bevitrici di caffè. In Kitty coesistono l’ansia e la frenesia di New York e la mentalità piccolo borghese del Midwest, le voglie del nascente consumismo e le preoccupazioni che accompagnarono il crollo della Borsa nel 1929. Ma quanto le è costato emanciparsi e seguire i propri desideri di donna? Per Kitty è arrivato il momento di riflettere su ciò che ha perduto e su ciò che ha trovato durante la sua vita. L’infanzia passata a occuparsi del burbero padre irlandese, l’abbandono degli studi, poi l’arrivo nella metropoli, il lavoro, la passione per gli abiti alla francese e per i cocktail dai nomi altisonanti. Ma un posto speciale è riservato a Wyn, un gentleman dal tipico portamento inglese che accavalla le gambe in modo inimitabile e di cui è profondamente innamorata… Christopher Morley tratteggia con spirito elegante l’America degli anni Trenta attraverso lo sguardo impertinente e scanzonato di una donna proiettata nel futuro. Pubblicato nel 1939 e presentato oggi per la prima volta in Italia nella sua versione integrale, "Kitty Foyle" fu subito un best seller. Una trasposizione cinematografica del 1940, che valse l’Oscar a Ginger Rogers, lanciò lo stile “alla Kitty Foyle”.

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Sir Thomas Browne said that Eve was "edified out of the rib of Adam." This little book was edified (for the most part) out of the ribs of two friendly newspapers. The New York Evening Post and The Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger. To them, and to The Bookman, Everybody's, and The Publishers' Weekly, I am grateful for permission to reprint.

Tristram Shandy said, "When a man is hemm'd in by two indecorums, and must commit one of 'em let him chuse which he will, the world will blame him." Now it is one indecorum to let this collection of small sketches go out (as they do) unrevised and just as they assaulted the defenceless reader of the daily prints; and the other indecorum would be to take fragments of this kind too gravely, and attempt by more careful disposition of their pallid members to arrange them into some appearance of painless decease. As Gilbert Chesterton said (I wish I could say, on a similar occasion): "Their vices are too vital to be improved with a blue pencil, or with anything I can think of, except dynamite."

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