On Booze
Will be published approx. on 2. December 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
144 pages
978-0-8112-3994-3 (ISBN)
Description
"First you take a drink," F. Scott Fitzgerald once noted, "then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you." Fitzgerald wrote alcohol into almost every one of his stories. On Booze gathers debutantes and dandies, rowdy jazz musicians, lost children and ragtime riff-raff into an intoxicating collection taken from The Crack-up, The Jazz Age, and other works. On Booze portrays Fitzgerald's wild era in unforgettable aphorisms, quips, and other short selections of writings: roaring, rambunctious, and lush-with quite a hangover.
Reviews / Votes
"His writing is a kind of subdued magic, controlled and exquisite, the sort of thing you get from good string quartets." -- Raymond Chandler ""The writing I love the most places you into that story, that room, that rain soaked kiss. You can smell the air, hear the sounds, and feel your heart race as the character's does. It's something F. Scott Fitzgerald did so well, to describe a scene so gorgeously interwoven with rich emotional revelations, that you yourself have escaped from your own life for a moment." " -- Taylor Swift ""Fitzgerald will be read when many of his well-known contemporaries are forgotten." " -- Gertrude Stein "His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings." -- Ernest Hemingway "There have been many drunk writers . . . but none seems to have encapsulated the glamour of alcohol like Fitzgerald." -- The New Statesman "Every sentence is its own glittering world...For all of Dorothy Parker's quips about cocktails and Charles Bukowski's bromides about beer, Fitzgerald's prose alcohol content remains unparalleled-the irony being that he was a lightweight." -- Sloane Crosley - The Yale Review "The great thing about Fitzgerald was his candor; verbal courage; simplicity. One little man with eyes really witnessing; objective in all he uttered, even about himself in a subjective slump." -- Glenway Wescott - The New RepublicMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 150 mm
Width: 102 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
113 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8112-3994-3 (9780811239943)
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Person
F. Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896, in St. Paul, Minnesota. He was educated at Princeton University and served in the United States Army during World War I. His first novel, This Side of Paradise (1920), was a national bestseller; Fitzgerald followed it with three more complete novels and hundreds of popular short stories. The Great Gatsby (1925), a timeless story of social class, race, and gender in America, remains his best-known work. Fitzgerald was living in Los Angeles, working on movie screenplays and a novel he called The Love of the Last Tycoon, when he died of a heart attack on December 21, 1941, at the age of 44.