London: Picador (Macmillan), 1996, hardback with jacket, first UK edition, first printing, xiii, 605 pages, 9½" x 6¼". 

Terrible Honesty is a portrait of the soul of a generation, the story of the men and women who made New York the capital of American literature, music, and language in the 1920s. Ann Douglas's magnificent account of "mongrel Manhattan" focuses especially on brilliant and diverse artists - F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker, Eugene O'Neill, Walter Winchell, Ernest Hemingway and Irving Berlin among them - and on those who influenced them most strongly, the powerful figures of Sigmund Freud, William James and Gertrude Stein. 

Condition: Bound in cloth in very good order, sits neat & square with no lean, bottom-edges of covers a little rubbed, page-ends clean, contents pristine with no inscriptions or bookplates, jacket complete with minimal edge-wear.