Publisher's Synopsis
Set in the heady Jazz Age of New York, The Beautiful and Damned is the story of Anthony Patch, a Harvard-educated, aspiring aesthete, and his beautiful trophy wife, Gloria. The couple is eager to embrace a life of ease once Patch inherits his grandfather's fortune. The novel offers a devastating portrait of a reckless marriage fueled by alcohol and wasted by wealth amid the extravagances of the 1920s