Gigi
by Anita Loos
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Author: Anita LoosEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Published)
Published: 1952
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 169
Publisher: Random House
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Book Review: By Anita Loos
Summary: 3 Stars
Gigi is the story of a girl named Gilberte, a young girl whose family wants her to be a nice society girl. Gigi is a tomboy, a young girl who is bored with tales of jewels and love affairs. She much prefers the company of a wealthy man named Tonton who brings her liquorice and plays piquet with her. The family conjures up a way to make Gigi more appealing to Tonton so that he might make her his mistress, but things do not go as they planned them to.
This story is short and easy to read, but it is not terribly exciting or emotional. The transformation of Gigi from a girl into a woman is a bit hard to grasp without visuals, so the story would be much more effective in play form rather than text.
Anita Loos was one of the foremost writers of the 1920s. She wrote Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, a wildly popular book about a ditzy gold digger named Lorelei Lee. She also contributed to Hollywood with many screenplays from the Biograph short The New York Hat and Red Headed Woman. This play is a nice one to read for fans of Loos, but it is not incredibly typical of her more scandalous writing so it might disappoint.
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