Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

“Between the lines of this fizzy little plot is the point that makes Gentlemen Prefer Blondes as fresh today as it was in 1925: This is a story about business that’s pretending to be a story about sex.”—The Wall Street Journal

“Cheeky . . . Think: the zany surrealism of the Marx Brothers crossed with the desire—both sexual and material—of Sex and the City. No wonder James Joyce was one of the novel’s many highbrow modernist fans. . . . In this retro era of cottagecore, trad wives and puffed-sleeved prairie dresses galore, how fun it is to travel back to the dawn of the modern age and revel in the giddy freedoms of flapperdom.”—Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air

“Just hilarious, and very brief—you’ll read it today and you might finish it tonight because you’re not going to be able to put it down. . . . Much more satirical than you would imagine from the movie, much darker in its way . . . Just a brilliant, brilliant book.”—Bill Goldstein, NBC’s Weekend Today in New York

“Anita Loos’s sharp and very funny send-up of the 1920s jet set—which, of course, was made into the 1953 classic starring Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe—turns 100 this year, but as this special edition (with a new introduction by Marlowe Granados) reminds us, great storytelling never goes out of style. Even at a century old, Loos’s portraits of millionaires, criminals, and not-so-dumb blondes feels fresh and important. Should you rewatch the film? Absolutely. But perhaps reread the book first.”—Town & Country

“[Gentlemen Prefer Blondes] is so funny it made my hair go even more platinum.”—Opulent Tips