Taking Things Hard: The Trials of F. Scott Fitzgerald - Couverture rigide

Garnett, Robert

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0807179345 ISBN 13 : 9780807179345

Editeur : Louisiana State University Press, 2023

Synopsis

F. Scott Fitzgerald published America's favorite novel, The Great Gatsby, at the young age of twenty-eight. Despite this extraordinary early achievement, Fitzgerald finished just one novel in the next (and last) fifteen years of his life, ending as a mostly unemployed Hollywood screenwriter. Taking Things Hard reveals the story behind the now-iconic Gatsby, along with Fitzgerald's struggle to write anything that matched its brilliance.

Robert R. Garnett's new biographical study of Fitzgerald's life and work begins by constructing a portrait of the young man who would wholly and uniquely pour himself into writing Gatsby. In the years following its publication, Fitzgerald continued penning stories, some of them among his finest, yet it took him nine years to complete another novel. The downward trajectory of his career had interweaving causes, among them arrogance, irresponsibility, his troubled marriage to Zelda Sayre, financial improvidence, and a destructive alcoholism. At the root of it all, though, lingered the simple fact that Fitzgerald's most intense and profound experiences had come early, during his truncated undergraduate years at Princeton and the months following his February 1919 discharge from the army.

Taking Things Hard provides a fresh look at the imaginative sources of Fitzgerald's fiction and considers the elements, drawn from the keen impressions and salient emotions of its author's youth, that make Gatsby a book that still speaks powerfully to readers.

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À propos de l'auteur

Robert R. Garnett is professor emeritus of English at Gettysburg College. His previous books include Charles Dickens in Love and From Grimes to Brideshead: The Early Novels of Evelyn Waugh.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Louisiana State University Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0807179345
• ISBN 13: 9780807179345
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible