![]() ![]() The novel was greeted with similar enthusiasm in the UK after its publication by Jonathan Cape in 1926 (I read Cape’s pictured Two Shilling Florin Books re-issue of 1933). So, I’m going to review Gentlemen Prefer Blondes now so that I can in due course review ‘Tackline’ ‘s (much less famous) wartime parody titled You Met Such Nice Girls in the Wrens (Robert Hale, London, 1943).Īnita Loos’ novel is very well-known and quickly became a best-seller in the US after its publication by Boni & Liveright in 1925 (in fact, it had already been avidly read in its original serial publication in Harper’s Bazaar). I had to read Gentlemen Prefer Blondes because I started reading what I suspected was a parody of it, but couldn’t be sure because I had never read the original. ![]()
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