On Booze

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.

Product Details

Price

$10.95 $10.18

Publisher

New Directions Publishing Corporation

Publish Date

June 28, 2011

Pages

Dimensions

4.61 X 7.01 X 0.66 inches | 0.19 pounds

Language

English

Type

Paperback

EAN/UPC

9780811219266

BISAC Categories:

Short Stories (single author)

Earn by promoting books

Earn money by sharing your favorite books through our Affiliate program.

Become an affiliate

About the Author

F. Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896, in St. Paul, Minnesota. He was educated at Princeton University and served in the United States Army during World War I. His first novel, This Side of Paradise (1920), was a national bestseller; Fitzgerald followed it with three more complete novels and hundreds of popular short stories. The Great Gatsby (1925), a timeless story of social class, race, and gender in America, remains his best-known work. Fitzgerald was living in Los Angeles, working on movie screenplays and a novel he called The Love of the Last Tycoon, when he died of a heart attack on December 21, 1941, at the age of 44.

Reviews

Smart, sophisticated, and evocative.
Smart, sophisticated, and evocative. "
His writing is a kind of subdued magic, controlled and exquisite, the sort of thing you get from good string quartets. --Raymond Chandler"
His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly s wings. --Ernest Hemingway"

Joshua Tree Authors