{"product_id":"2026100007648-secondhand-the-letters-of-f-scott-fitzgerald","title":"The Letters Of F. Scott Fitzgerald","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 1st uk ed.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good. Jacket: Worn\/faded - no tears. Jacket protected by mylar sleeve. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew American writers have laid bare their inner life with as much candor, wit, and heartbreak as F. Scott Fitzgerald did in his personal correspondence. The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald, edited with an introduction by Andrew Turnbull, gathers an extraordinary collection of letters written to family, friends, editors, and fellow writers — including Ernest Hemingway, Maxwell Perkins, and his daughter Scottie — offering an unfiltered portrait of the man behind The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night. These letters chronicle the full arc of Fitzgerald's turbulent life: the dazzling highs of Jazz Age celebrity, the private anguish of Zelda's illness, the grinding struggle against financial ruin, and the dogged, often desperate effort to reclaim literary greatness in Hollywood.\n\nTurnbull, one of Fitzgerald's most perceptive biographers, presents this correspondence with a scholar's precision and a storyteller's sensitivity, contextualising each exchange within the broader drama of American modernism. The collection illuminates Fitzgerald's remarkably self-aware artistic intelligence — his anxieties about craft, his reverence for language, and his unrelenting ambition — revealing a writer whose private voice was as luminous as his published prose. For readers who think they know Fitzgerald, these letters promise to overturn assumptions and deepen admiration in equal measure.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130584244443,"sku":"2026100007648-SECONDHAND","price":40.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/f34bd811-310d-4244-bef7-fead93190515.png?v=1786586749","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100007648-secondhand-the-letters-of-f-scott-fitzgerald","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}