the sacred and profane memories of Captain Charles Ryder
Waugh, Evelyn
2008
Captain Charles Ryder returns to the country estate of Brideshead where he indulges in a sentimental journey that takes him back twenty years to his schoolmates at Oxford and to his memories of the Marchmains.
a story of the roaring twenties, the birth of tabloid media, and the courtship that captured the heart and imagination of the American public
Greenburg, Michael M
2008
An account of the sensational marriage of an aging Manhattan millionare and a fifteen-year-old high school dropout during the 1920s; with a parallel look at the rise of tabloid journalism.
Follows Anthony and Gloria Patch, a wealthy couple, through various romantic pursuits which leave them, after six years of marriage, with Anthony's mental and physical health in decline and Gloria's beauty waning.
