Major literary figures Waugh, Anthony Powell, the pseudonymous “Henry Green” and effervescent Nancy Mitford rubbed shoulders with such varied luminaries as celebrity photographer Cecil Beaton, journalist Tom Driberg, epicene underachievers Brian Howard and Stephen Tennant and unstable sybarites like Elizabeth Ponsonby. Inveterate idlers and party animals, these vainglorious glitterati twinkled their way through London society, siphoning off their sometimes indulgent families’ fortunes to bankroll lavish parties, elaborate pranks and sexual dalliances, while excitedly congratulating one another for the jaded stabs at originality. British biographer and novelist Taylor ( Kept, 2008, etc.) offers a vivid group portrait of the 1920s pleasure-seekers who ought to have been-and sometimes were-characters in Evelyn Waugh’s novels.
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