F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ruth Prigozy(Author)
Penguin Books Ltd (Publisher)
Published on 29. November 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
176 pages
978-0-14-029525-2 (ISBN)
Description
"Penguin Illustrated Lives" is a series of photographic biographies that offers a fresh, intimate portrait of some of our favourite writers. An incisive, lively text is accompanied by over 100 evocative images, many in colour and some previously unpublished, which depict the author's world - family, friends and artistic circle together with original book jackets, letters and other ephemera. Scott Fitzgerald's life reads like one of his own stories: a young man of great promise marries into wealth, but beneath the golden surface lie alcoholism, debt, insecurity and in Fitzgerald's particular case the mental instablity of his beautiful, unconventional wife, Zelda. In the face of these sorrows, Fitzgerald wrote brilliant, diamond-sharp prose and in "The Great Gatsby" he captured for all time the sham of the American Dream.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Illustrations
Illustrations (some col.), ports. (some col.)
Dimensions
Height: 180 mm
Width: 123 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
244 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-14-029525-2 (9780140295252)
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Person
Ruth Prigozy is Professor of English at Hofstra University, USA. She is the editor of the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Fitzgerald, and one of the three founders of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Society which she serves as Executive Director. She was featured in Omnibus's Great Gatsy programme on BBC 1 earlier this year.
Content
Prologue - the afterlife of F. Scott Fitzgerald; prologue - 21 December 1940; the early years - St. Paul and the young writer; Princeton, Ginevra King; "This Side of Paradise", Zelda Sayre, early success, great neck; Europe, Edouard Jozan, "The Great Gatsby", Ernest Hemingway; Hollywood, Ellerslie, travels, Zelda's breakdown; relapses, La Paix, "Tender is the Night"; debt, despair, "The Crack-Up"; Hollywood, Sheilah Graham, "The Last Tycoon".