A montage of World War I and Americans in Paris in the 1920s, this novel by John Monk Saunders, author of "Wings," " "is an almost perfect facsimile of the lost generation novel a readable and revealing imitation of the moods of "The Sun Also Rises."Whether early Hemingway or vintage Hollywood, "Single Lady "is certain to surprise and delight readers today. As readers of this new edition will discover, John Monk Saunders, a Rhodes Scholar and a highly successful screenwriter ("The Dawn Patrol, A Yank at Oxford")" "peoples his landscape with memorable figures, and has an extraordinarily good ear for dialogue.""The story is this: five young ex-warriors of the sky, Shepard Lambert, Bill Talbot, John Swann, Cary Lockwood, and The Washout, unable to let down from the high nervous pitch of flying and fighting, are adrift in Paris after the Armistice, and seemingly bent on self-destruction. They meet Nikki, who joins them in their spectacular journey through the bars of Paris, the cafes of Lisbon, and the bullring of Madrid, and who becomes part of their strangely disordered lives."