On Booze

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  • : $20.00 AUD
  • : 9780811219266
  • : New Directions Publishing Corporation
  • : New Directions Publishing Corporation
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  • : July 2011
  • : 178mm X 117mm X 10mm
  • : United States
  • : 21.95
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  • : F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Barcode 9780811219266
9780811219266

Description

"First you take a drink," F. Scott Fitzgerald once noted, "then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you." Fitzgerald wrote alcohol into almost every one of his stories. On Booze gathers debutantes and dandies, rowdy jazz musicians, lost children and ragtime riff-raff into a newly compiled collection taken from The Crack-Up, and other works never before published by New Directions. On Booze portrays "The Jazz Age" as Fitzgerald experienced it: roaring, rambunctious, and lush - with quite a hangover.

Author description

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1941) was one of the literary titans of the 20th century. A member of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s, Fitzgerald's writings best captured what he termed "The Jazz Age," a period of declining traditional American values, prohibition and speakeasies, and great leaps in modernist trends.