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F Scott Fitzgerald (Paperback)
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F Scott Fitzgerald (Paperback)
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Loot Price R88
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F Scott Fitzgerald is widely praised as the finest and most
celebrated novelist of twentieth century America. His reputation is
infinitely more lustrous since his untimely death than it was for
much of his twenty-year literary career and is largely based on his
1925 novel, The Great Gatsby, as well as on the colourful and
tragic incidents of his personal life. His alcoholism; his fairy
tale marriage to the beautiful Zelda Sayre, and her gradual descent
into schizophrenia; the incandescent blossoming and dissipation of
his literary gifts have all added to his legend. Fitzgerald was an
individual who seemed to be composed of opposites and who,
fittingly, could have been one of his own characters. He was
charming, witty and in love with the magic and splendour of life,
but also felt compelled to embrace the darkness. As a writer, his
perception of the world around him was so finely tuned and acute
that his life and career were a mirror of the 1920s and 30s, so
that just as the Jazz Age gave way to the Depression, Fitzgerald's
dazzling and youthful success yielded to drunkenness, despair and
what he termed 'emotional bankruptcy'. This Pocket Essentials
examines both Fitzgerald's life and writing and probes the
infinitely complex and symbiotic relationship between the two,
revealing the man behind the myth and behind some of the finest
prose of all time.
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