The Jazz Age: Essays
Even theAmerican Heritage Dictionary acknowledges that F. Scott Fitzgerald epitomized the Jazz Age. And nowhere among his writings are the gin, pith, and morning-after squint of that era better illuminated than in these short essays. Selected in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Fitzgerald's birth, these candid personal memoirs--one written with his wife, Zelda--furnish nothing less than the autobiography of the lost generation of the 1920s. He lacked armor, EL. Doctorow, author of The Waterworks, Ragtime, and Billy Bathgates, notes in his introduction. He did not live in protective seclusion, as Faulkner. He was not carapaced in self-p…
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Weitere Autoren: Doctorow, E. L. (Solist)
- ISBN: 978-0-8112-1333-2
- EAN: 9780811213332
- Produktnummer: 9275473
- Verlag: New Directions
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1996
- Seitenangabe: 96 S.
- Masse: H17.7 cm x B12.1 cm x D0.8 cm 91 g
- Gewicht: 91
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Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896, F. Scott Fitzgerald attended Princeton University, joined the army during World War I, and in 1920 married Zelda Sayre and published his first novel, This Side of Paradise. His books include The Beautiful and Damned and Tender Is the Night. He died at the age of forty-four while working on The Last Tycoon. New Directions also publishes Fitzgerald's The Crack-Up and On Booze.
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