Parties

<p><b>&#145;I want to give a really <i>bad </i>party. I mean it. I want to give a party where there&#146;s a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the <i>cabinet de toilette</i>. You wait and see.&#146;</b><br><br>The crackle of gin on ice the first chords of the band the low hum of gossip&#150; whether you love or loathe parties Fitzgerald writes them like no one else. From glittering occasions complete with an orchestra and dancing girls to a fist-fight at the end of a toddler&#146;s birthday this is a dazzling collection of party pieces from the master of celebration.<br><br>Selected from <i>The Great Gatsby</i> <i>Tender is the Night </i>and <i>Flappers and Philosophers</i><br><br> <b>VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.</b><br><br> A series of short books by the world&#146;s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human</p>