NEW CENTENNIAL EDITION FOR 2020 Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
honeymooned for five months in the summer of 1920 in a modest gray
house in Westport, Connecticut. It was an experience that had a
more profound impact on both of their collective works than any
other place they lived. It was, for Scott and Zelda, their
honeymoon. Having just gotten married and after being kicked out of
some of New York city's finest hotels, they were, for the first
time, in their very own place, albeit for only five months. It was
a time that Scott Fitzgerald called "the happiest year since I was
eighteen."He had, after all, just achieved success with his first
novel, This Side of Paradise, and was suddenly awash with money.
The Fitzgeralds lived a wild life of drinking, driving and endless
partying while living in suburban Connecticut. As it happens,
living near the beach, they were neighbors to a larger-than-life
reclusive multi-millionaire, F.E. Lewis. Historian Richard Webb
grew up in Westport a few doors down the street from where the
Fitzgeralds had lived some forty years earlier. Fascinated with the
Fitzgeralds, when Webb learned that author Barbara Probst Solomon,
who grew up across the river from the F.E. Lewis estate, proposed
in the New Yorker that Westport was the real setting for
Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby, he was stirred to actively researching
her claim. Boats Against the Current tells the real story behind
the famous novel and its tragic hero, debunking the long-held
belief that the book was solely inspired by the Fitzgerald's time
in Great Neck, across the Sound in Long Island, and lays out enough
information about the fascinating Mr. Lewis that it is difficult
not to believe that author Webb has located the true inspiration
for one of the most captivating and iconic characters in American
literature, the great Gatsby himself. Illustrated with a fantastic
array of never-before-seen photos from the Lewis family, as well as
the scrapbooks of the Fitzgeralds, period newspaper clippings, and
a myriad of compelling stories about Scott, Zelda and their
fantastically wealthy neighbor. A companion book to the documentary
Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story, Boats Against the Current
also recounts Webb's own journey of making the film with fellow
Westporter and filmmaker, Robert Steven Williams. The Great Gatsby
may be one of America's essential novels. Boats Against the Current
is an essential document for anyone who has read the book and
wondered at the fantastical world whose story it tells.
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