Anita Loos – Gentelmen prefer blondes

Lorelei Lee is a woman who usually gets what she wants and she wants to marry an interesting gentleman. By interesting she means extremely rich, very generous and preferably famous. She is not ashamed of the fact that she prefers diamonds to kisses. Diamonds, after all, last forever … unlike love. In Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, written in diary form, she outlines her adventures in her quest for this gentleman. Lorelei Lee was born into a not-so-rich family in Little Rock, Arkansas. As a teenager she shot and killed her predatory boss. She was acquitted of murder and moved to New York to escape her past. It is at this point that she begins her diary. Here she meets her equally manipulative and gold-digging friend, Dorothy. She also meets Mr Eisman, who is boring because he doesn’t like dancing; she tolerates him however because he is very rich and willing to finance her expensive whims. He is her sugar daddy.
Mr Eisman pays for Lorelei and Dorothy to travel to Europe to be educated. They travel on board the cruise ship, the Majestic, where she encounters a ghost from her past, a lawyer who represents the family of the man she killed in Little Rock. At first, she is afraid of what he might do, but the problem is solved when he falls in love with her. She then casts him aside and continues her journey with Dorothy to London and Paris.
Using good looks and all the charm they can muster, the pair inveigle their way into the company of any rich gentlemen that cross their path. Among the famous people she meets are The Prince of Wales and Sigmund Freud. It is on the train journey to Paris that Lorelei meets Henry Spoffard who is immediately besotted with her. Henry is boring, but he is also very rich; unfortunately he is not especially generous. Nevertheless she agrees to marry him. When they arrive back home, he takes Lorelei to meet his family who are equally rich and boring. On the return train journey to New York, she meets a stimulating young man called Gilbertson Montrose who makes movies and he wants Lorelei to star in his movies. Now she is faced with a dilemma: Henry Spoffard or Gilbertson Montrose? It is a difficult decision, but Lorelei always she gets what she wants. She marries the rich Henry Spoffard and spends her days with Gilbertson Montrose working on his movies   źródło opisu: http://merlin.pl/Penguin-Readers-Gentlemen-Prefer-…(?) źródło okładki: http://www.google.pl/imgres?um=1&hl=pl&client=fire…»