The Real F. Scott Fitzgerald: Thirty-Five Years Later
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Remainder mark
Few literary love stories are as tragic and luminous as the one between Hollywood gossip columnist Sheilah Graham and F. Scott Fitzgerald — the man who defined an era and then burned out trying to recapture it. In The Real F. Scott Fitzgerald: Thirty-Five Years Later, Graham draws on her intimate years spent with the author during the final chapter of his life to paint a portrait of the man behind The Great Gatsby and Tender Is the Night — not the mythologized icon, but the flawed, brilliant, and deeply human writer she loved. Written with the candour of a firsthand witness and the passion of someone who never quite let go, Graham's memoir-biography uncovers the contradictions at Fitzgerald's core: the romantic idealist undone by alcoholism, the literary genius overshadowed during his own lifetime, and the devoted companion who poured his remaining creative energy into The Last Tycoon. This retrospective reassessment, published three and a half decades after his death, stands as both a personal testimony and a vital corrective to the Fitzgerald myth — leaving the reader to wonder how much of the real man has yet to be fully understood.
Author: Sheilah Graham
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Remainder mark
Few literary love stories are as tragic and luminous as the one between Hollywood gossip columnist Sheilah Graham and F. Scott Fitzgerald — the man who defined an era and then burned out trying to recapture it. In The Real F. Scott Fitzgerald: Thirty-Five Years Later, Graham draws on her intimate years spent with the author during the final chapter of his life to paint a portrait of the man behind The Great Gatsby and Tender Is the Night — not the mythologized icon, but the flawed, brilliant, and deeply human writer she loved. Written with the candour of a firsthand witness and the passion of someone who never quite let go, Graham's memoir-biography uncovers the contradictions at Fitzgerald's core: the romantic idealist undone by alcoholism, the literary genius overshadowed during his own lifetime, and the devoted companion who poured his remaining creative energy into The Last Tycoon. This retrospective reassessment, published three and a half decades after his death, stands as both a personal testimony and a vital corrective to the Fitzgerald myth — leaving the reader to wonder how much of the real man has yet to be fully understood.