Beautiful And Damned

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Exploring the decadence of Jazz Age New York through a fictionalised version of his own marriage to Zelda Fitzgerald F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Beautiful & the Damned"

Includes:: an introduction by Geoff Dyer in " Penguin Modern Classics". Anthony Patch & his wife Gloria are the essence of Jazz Age glamour. A brilliant & magnetic couple they fling themselves at life with an energy that is thrilling. New York is a playground where they dance & drink for days on end. Their marriage is a passionate theatrical performance; they are young rich alive & lovely & they intend to inherit the earth. But as money becomes tight their marriage becomes impossible. & with their inheritance still distant Anthony & Gloria must face reality; they may be beautiful
- but they are also damned. F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) has acquired a mythical status in American literary history & his masterwork " The Great Gatsby" is considered by many to be the 'great American novel'. In 1920 he married Zelda Sayre dubbed 'the first American Flapper' & their traumatic marriage & Zelda's gradual descent into insanity became the leading influence on his writing. As well as many short stories Fitzgerald wrote five novels " This Side of Paradise" " The Great Gatsby" " The Beautiful & the Damned" " Tender is the Night" & incomplete at the time of his death " The Last Tycoon". After his death " The New York Times" said of him that 'in fact & in the literary sense he created a "generation"'. If you enjoyed " The Beautiful & the Damned" you might like John Dos Passos' " Manhattan Transfer" also available in " Penguin Classics". "A prose that has the tough delicacy of a garnet". (" New York Review of Books")."