| 词条 | Firecrackers. A Realistic Novel |
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| name = Firecrackers | image = File:Firecrackers. A Realistic Novel (front cover).jpg | image_size = 150px | caption = Cover of the first edition in 1925 | author = Carl Van Vechten | country = {{USA}} | language = English | genre = Novel | published = 1925 (Knopf) | media_type = Print (hardcover & paperback) }} Firecrackers. A Realistic Novel is a 1925 novel by American author Carl Van Vechten which explores the temerity and hedonism prevalent during the 1920s Jazz Age in the United States.{{sfn|The New York Times|1925}} Van Vechten dedicated this particular novel to his friend James Branch Cabell. The book is considered to be the fourth entry in a series about New York's "Upper Bohemians" and chronicles the further adventures of characters which appeared in Vechten's earlier works such as The Blind Bow-Boy (1923) and The Tattooed Countess (1924).{{sfn|The New York Times|1925}} Synopsis{{Cquote|{{resize|90%|You must think of a group of people in terms of a packet of firecrackers. You ignite the first cracker and the flash fires the fuse of the second, and so on, until, after a series of crackling detonations, the whole bunch has exploded, and nothing survives but a few torn and scattered bits of paper, blackened with powder.}}|author=Carl Van Vechten |source=Firecrackers{{sfn|Van Vechten|1925|p=126}} }} During 1924, a blasé coterie of affluent New Yorkers are inordinately excited by a handsome and athletic newcomer to their social circle, Gunnar O'Grady, "a youth with the appearance of a Greek Adonis."{{sfn|The New York Times|1925}} Alternately seeking and avoiding their attentions, this enigmatic individual drifts through a series of menial vocations including furnace repairman, florist, waiter, and acrobat. He becomes an object of sexual fascination to many within the circle, including a precocious young girl, a thrill-seeking wife, and a bored husband. Tensions escalate as various persons within the coterie vie for O'Grady's companionship and O'Grady finds his own desires stymied. See also
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