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The Washington Post | August 16, 2009 | Copyright

Gilded Youth

By Kate Cambor. Farrar Straus Giroux. 323 pp. $26

Kate Cambor's first book opens in 1914, the year France lurched from the opulence of the Gilded Age into the clamor of the modern world. Gone were the days when debutantes danced until dawn at mountainside resorts and literary giants such as Victor Hugo and Alphonse Daudet presided over Paris salons. Ushered in was an era of war and disorientation. "The new generation of writers and politicians . . . were engaged in a battle of epic and Oedipal proportions," Cambor writes. "At stake was nothing less than the heart and soul of ...

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