
Grace Merrill, one of six young girls who idle their lives away staging jazz parties in a New York apartment, advises the youngest, Elsie, who is disillusioned by Frank Norwood, that men are worthless creatures. In a round of revelry Elsie takes her own life.


Manhattan, 1921. The Great War is a fresh scar, Prohibition is a joke, and six young women turn a sun-splashed apartment into a pagan temple of gin, saxophone squeals, and lipstick graffiti. They worship the moment because tomorrow has been canceled. Grace Merrill—lissome, ironic, dangerous—presides like a high pries...

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" Manhattan, 1921. The Great War is a fresh scar, Prohibition is a joke, and six young women turn a sun-splashed apartment into a pagan temple of gin, saxophone squeals, and lipstick graffiti. They worship the moment because tomorrow has been canceled. Grace Merrill—lissome, ironic, dangerous—presides like a high priestess who has already read the last page of the scripture and found it blank. Her credo, spat between smoke rings: men are curiosities, useful only as mirrors that crack. Into this ..."
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