The Last Tycoon
Autor F. Scott Fitzgeralden Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 iun 2020
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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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781982147730
ISBN-10: 1982147733
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 139 x 199 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: Scribner
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.