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The Last Tycoon

Autor F. Scott Fitzgerald
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 iun 2020
Unfinished at the time of his death, F. Scott Fitzgerald'sThe Last Tycoonis a story of doomed love set against the extravagance of America's booming film industry. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is edited with an introduction by Edmund Wilson.

The studio lot looks like 'thirty acres of fairyland' the night that a mysterious woman stands and smiles at Monroe Stahr, the last of the great Hollywood princes. Enchanted by one another, they begin a passionate but hopeless love affair, starting with a fast-moving seduction as slick as a scene from one of Stahr's pictures. The romance unfolds, frame by frame, watched by Cecilia, a thoroughly modern girl who has taken her lessons in sentiment and cynicism from all the movies she has seen. Her buoyant humour and satirical eye perfectly complement Fitzgerald's panorama of Hollywood at its most lavish and bewitching.

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) has acquired a mythical status in American literary history, and his masterworkThe Great Gatsbyis considered by many to be the 'great American novel'. In 1920 he married Zelda Sayre, dubbed 'the first American Flapper', and their traumatic marriage and Zelda's gradual descent into insanity became the leading influence on his writing. As well as many short stories, Fitzgerald wrote five novelsThis Side of Paradise,The Great Gatsby,The Beautiful and the Damned,Tender is the Nightand, incomplete at the time of his death,The Last Tycoon. After his deathThe New York Timessaid of him that 'in fact and in the literary sense he created a "generation" '.

If you enjoyedThe Last Tycoon, you might enjoy Fitzgerald'sThe Beautiful and the Damned, also available in Penguin Classics.

'Wonderful ... a novel about Hollywood, written from the inside'
Helen Dunmore,Sunday Times
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ISBN-13: 9781982147730
ISBN-10: 1982147733
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 139 x 199 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: Scribner

Notă biografică

F. Scott Fizgerald was born in 1896 in St Paul, Minnesota, and went to Princeton University, which he left in 1917 to join the army. He was said to have epitomized the Jazz Age, which he himself defined as 'a generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken'. In 1920 he married Zelda Sayre. Their traumatic marriage and her subsequent breakdowns became the leading influence on his writing. Among his publications were five novels,This Side of Paradise,The Great Gatsby,The Beautiful and Damned,Tender is the NightandThe Last Tycoon(his last and unfinished work). Fitzgerald died suddenly in 1940.

Recenzii

He was better than he knew, for in fact and in the literary sense he invented a generation.
 
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