F. Scott Fitzgerald

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The Last Tycoon

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

F Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) left Princeton University in 1917 to join the army. He is 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 entered a traumatic marriage which was to influence much of his writing.

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Produktdetails

• Penguin Modern Classics
• Verlag: Penguin Books UK
• New ed
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 127mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 156g
• ISBN-13: 9780141185637
• ISBN-10: 0141185635
• Artikelnr.: 22163141

Rezensionen

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

It would have been Fitzgerald's best novel . . . Even in this truncated form it not only makes absorbing reading; it is the best piece of creative writing that we have about one phase of American life - Hollywood and the movies New York Times