The Beautiful and Damned
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The Beautiful and Damned by F Scott Fitzgerald
Anthony Patch and Gloria Gibson are the golden children of the Jazz Age. They marry and embark on a life of glittering parties, lavish expenditure and scandalous revelry. When the money dries up their marriage founders. In this wistful novel Fitzgerald portrays the decline of youthful promise with devastating clarity.
The Jazz Age chronicler's first great novel * The Times *
No one has written more elegiacally about America than FScott Fitzgerald...a sense of lost time and the irretrievability of the past gave much of his work - indeed, his life - an ineradicable undertone of mourning * Guardian *
If Francis Scott Fitzgerald had not existed, it would have been necessary to invent him. Seldom has there been a character who personified, as well as chronicled, an age with such dexterity and verisimilitude * Sunday Times *
None was more beautiful, none more damned, than Fitzgerald himself * Independent on Sunday *
No one has written more elegiacally about America than FScott Fitzgerald...a sense of lost time and the irretrievability of the past gave much of his work - indeed, his life - an ineradicable undertone of mourning * Guardian *
If Francis Scott Fitzgerald had not existed, it would have been necessary to invent him. Seldom has there been a character who personified, as well as chronicled, an age with such dexterity and verisimilitude * Sunday Times *
None was more beautiful, none more damned, than Fitzgerald himself * Independent on Sunday *
Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age – a term he popularized in his short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age. His first novel, This Side of Paradise, was published in 1920 and was a tremendous critical and commercial success. Fitzgerald followed with The Beautiful and the Damned, The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night . He was working on The Last Tycoon when he died, in Hollywood, in 1940.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099541493 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099541491 |
| Title | The Beautiful and Damned |
| Author | F Scott Fitzgerald |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2011-01-06 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
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