Scott Fitzgerald And His World
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: Previous owner. Binding condition: Binding intact.
Few American writers have embodied the dazzling promise and tragic collapse of the Jazz Age quite like F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Arthur Mizener's Scott Fitzgerald and His World brings that tumultuous life into vivid focus. Drawing on a rich archive of photographs, personal correspondence, and cultural documents, Mizener chronicles the arc of Fitzgerald's life — from his ambitious beginnings in St. Paul, Minnesota, through his glittering yet self-destructive years in New York and the French Riviera, to his lonely decline in Hollywood — weaving biography with the broader spectacle of an era defined by excess and disillusionment. Mizener, widely regarded as the foremost Fitzgerald scholar of his generation, presents a portrait that is as much about an age as it is about a man. His prose is economical yet evocative, illuminating how Fitzgerald's personal demons — his turbulent marriage to Zelda, his battles with alcoholism, and his desperate hunger for belonging among the very class he immortalised in fiction — informed some of the most enduring literature of the twentieth century. For anyone captivated by the green light at the end of Daisy's dock, this biography raises the essential question: was Fitzgerald's genius born of his suffering, or destroyed by it?
Author: Arthur Mizener
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: Previous owner. Binding condition: Binding intact.
Few American writers have embodied the dazzling promise and tragic collapse of the Jazz Age quite like F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Arthur Mizener's Scott Fitzgerald and His World brings that tumultuous life into vivid focus. Drawing on a rich archive of photographs, personal correspondence, and cultural documents, Mizener chronicles the arc of Fitzgerald's life — from his ambitious beginnings in St. Paul, Minnesota, through his glittering yet self-destructive years in New York and the French Riviera, to his lonely decline in Hollywood — weaving biography with the broader spectacle of an era defined by excess and disillusionment. Mizener, widely regarded as the foremost Fitzgerald scholar of his generation, presents a portrait that is as much about an age as it is about a man. His prose is economical yet evocative, illuminating how Fitzgerald's personal demons — his turbulent marriage to Zelda, his battles with alcoholism, and his desperate hunger for belonging among the very class he immortalised in fiction — informed some of the most enduring literature of the twentieth century. For anyone captivated by the green light at the end of Daisy's dock, this biography raises the essential question: was Fitzgerald's genius born of his suffering, or destroyed by it?