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A daring novel that shocked the Jazz Age-and still burns with truth today. In Bad Girl, Viña Delmar rips the glittering mask off 1920s romance and exposes the real heartbeat of a generation caught between desire, convention, and survival. In roaring-era New York City, a young woman refuses to play by society's rules. She wants love-but she also wants freedom, respect, and a life that belongs to her alone. When Dorothy, a working-class shop girl with a wild streak, falls for Eddie, a man as stubborn and passionate as she is, their story explodes into a storm of love, pride, independence, and consequence. Beneath the flapper sparkle and jazz-club heat lies a deeply modern struggle: how far can a woman go to live life on her own terms before the world calls her a bad girl? First published in 1928, Bad Girl became an instant bestseller and scandal, earning Delmar both fame and controversy. Banned in some cities and celebrated in others, it was later adapted into an Oscar-winning Hollywood film-one of the first movies to portray love and marriage with raw honesty and emotional depth. Rediscovered today, this lost feminist classic captures the power and vulnerability of women carving out identity in a rapidly changing world. Bad Girl speaks directly to fans of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker, Anita Loos, and Edna Ferber-readers who crave authentic emotion, smart social commentary, and unforgettable storytelling.

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Viña Delmar (1903-1990) was one of the boldest and most talked-about writers of early twentieth-century America. A novelist, screenwriter, and playwright, she burst onto the literary scene in 1928 with her sensational debut novel Bad Girl, a book that shocked the censors, captivated the public, and became a bestselling cultural phenomenon.Known for her fearless portrayals of women, class, and desire, Delmar's fiction captured the real emotional struggles of a generation caught between the strict morals of the past and the thrilling freedoms of the Jazz Age. Her work brought raw realism, feminist insight, and cinematic flair to modern fiction long before those ideas became mainstream.After Bad Girl became an Academy Award-winning film, Delmar went on to write several other successful novels and screenplays, including Kept Woman, Loose Ladies, and The Awful Truth, which became a Hollywood classic starring Cary Grant and Irene Dunne.Rediscovered today, Viña Delmar stands as a trailblazing voice of women's independence and social realism, a writer whose work still feels strikingly modern-passionate, daring, and unafraid to tell the truth about love and life.

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