Firecrackers

FirecrackersFirecrackers: A Realistic Novel (1925) is a novel by Carl Van Vechten. Published in the same year as F. Scott Fitzgeralds The Great Gatsby and Anita Loos Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Van Vechtens novel has been recognized as an important document of the Jazz Age, a decade of bohemian excess and artistic experimentation that changed the shape of American and European culture. You must think of a group of people in terms of a packet of firecrackers. You

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