The Last Tycoon
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Hollywood's golden age meets its darkest underbelly in F. Scott Fitzgerald's final, unfinished masterpiece, The Last Tycoon — a novel that burns with the brilliance of a dying star. The story chronicles Monroe Stahr, a brilliant and magnetic film producer whose iron grip on a glittering empire of celluloid dreams begins to fracture under the weight of love, ambition, and the inexorable tides of change sweeping through 1930s Hollywood. Narrated through the perceptive eyes of Cecelia Brady, the daughter of a rival mogul, the novel uncovers a world of ruthless power and breathtaking beauty, where art and commerce wage an endless, intimate war. Fitzgerald, the consummate chronicler of the American Dream's seductive promise and inevitable corruption, here argues that genius is both a gift and a prison — a theme that resonates far beyond the studio lot. Drawing on his own turbulent experience as a Hollywood screenwriter, he presents Stahr as a spiritual successor to Jay Gatsby: a self-made titan undone by the very idealism that built him. Though left incomplete at the time of Fitzgerald's death in 1940, the novel stands as one of American literature's most haunting fragments, leaving the reader to wonder what heights a completed vision might have scaled.
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Format: Paperback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Hollywood's golden age meets its darkest underbelly in F. Scott Fitzgerald's final, unfinished masterpiece, The Last Tycoon — a novel that burns with the brilliance of a dying star. The story chronicles Monroe Stahr, a brilliant and magnetic film producer whose iron grip on a glittering empire of celluloid dreams begins to fracture under the weight of love, ambition, and the inexorable tides of change sweeping through 1930s Hollywood. Narrated through the perceptive eyes of Cecelia Brady, the daughter of a rival mogul, the novel uncovers a world of ruthless power and breathtaking beauty, where art and commerce wage an endless, intimate war. Fitzgerald, the consummate chronicler of the American Dream's seductive promise and inevitable corruption, here argues that genius is both a gift and a prison — a theme that resonates far beyond the studio lot. Drawing on his own turbulent experience as a Hollywood screenwriter, he presents Stahr as a spiritual successor to Jay Gatsby: a self-made titan undone by the very idealism that built him. Though left incomplete at the time of Fitzgerald's death in 1940, the novel stands as one of American literature's most haunting fragments, leaving the reader to wonder what heights a completed vision might have scaled.