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Paradise Flats Hot and Cold Air Among Fashionable Resorts
A comic tale set in Paradise flats where four prominent ladies chase summer prestige. The janitor recalls how bluffs to Newport, Saratoga, Long Branch and Gibraltar trigger a flurry of high priced fantasies, empty gestures, and long-distance schemes. The piece ends with a reflection on hot air versus cold air in social climbing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Literary Press
Paradise Flats
Newport
Long Branch
Saratoga
Ulammerdinger
Duchess of
Derbyshire
Lady O'Sullivan
New Jersey
O’sullivan
Scutire
Damito
Brooklyn
Duchess of Derbyshire
Jamaica
Fly
Neffer
Dot
Lady O
Gibraltar
Mr. Hammerdinger