” First you take a drink, ” F. Scott Fitzgerald once noted, ”then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.” Few writers have conveyed the effects of alcohol as vividly as Fitzgerald, & this collection gathers debutantes & dandies, rowdy jazz musicians, lost children & ragtime riff-raff into a collection taken from The Crack-Up & other works. On Booze portrays ” The Jazz Age” as Fitzgerald experienced it: roaring, rambunctious, & lush with quite a hangover.