Beautiful and Damned, The

Author: Fitzgerald, F Scott

Brand: Vintage Classics

Binding: Paperback

Number Of Pages: 400

Release Date: 02-05-2011

Part Number: 9780099541493

Details: Product Description
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.
Review
The Jazz Age chronicler's first great novel ―
The Times

No one has written more elegiacally about America than F. Scott 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
About the Author
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 -1940) is widely considered the poet laureate of the Jazz Age. He wrote many short stories and four novels,
This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and the Damned, Tender is the Night and
The Great Gatsby. An unfinished novel,
The Last Tycoon, was published posthumously.

EAN: 9780099541493

Package Dimensions: 7.7 x 4.9 x 1.1 inches

Languages: English