{"product_id":"2026200018684-secondhand-the-real-f-scott-fitzgerald-thirty-five-years-later","title":"The Real F. Scott Fitzgerald: Thirty-Five Years Later","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Remainder mark\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew 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.\n\nWritten 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50572656705755,"sku":"2026200018684-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/d73df672-e654-4ed1-a684-fb797e152061.png?v=1791167150","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200018684-secondhand-the-real-f-scott-fitzgerald-thirty-five-years-later","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}