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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Soon to be a Major Picture

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Soon to be a Major Picture

by F . Scott Fitzgerald (Author)

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Synopsis

'This story was inspired by a remark of Mark Twain's to the effect that it was a pity that the best part of life came at the beginning and the worst part at the end. By trying the experiment upon only one man in a perfectly normal world I have scarcely given his ideas a fair trial.' Fitzgerald's thought-provoking tale, 'THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON' is a fantastical satire about aging. It is the strange and haunting story of Benjamin Button who is born as an old man and ages backwards so that at the beginning of his life he is an old man and at the end of his life he is a baby.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 64
 Edition: 1st Scribner Trade Pbk Ed
 Publisher: Scribner
Published: 01 Sep 2008
ISBN 10: 1416556052
ISBN 13: 9781416556053

Media Reviews
Joseph Coates

Chicago Tribune

Bruccoli gives [us]...a virtually new and vastly amplified Fitzgerald.


Mark Caldwell

The Philadelphia Inquirer

More than enough to re-establish Fitzgerald as a master of the American short story.


Jay McInerney

The New York Review of Books

One pleasure of rereading Fitzgerald's stories now is to rediscover just how good some of them in fact are, and how brilliant a handful.


Leonard A. Podis

The Cleveland Plain Dealer

This is a valuable collection, whether one reads the stories to delight in Fitzgerald's style, to conjure up a lost era, to learn more about the career of a great American novelist, or simply to gain insight into the human condition.

Author Bio
F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896. He attended Princeton University, joined the United States Army during World War I, and published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920. That same year he married Zelda Sayre and for the next decade the couple lived in New York, Paris, and on the Riviera. Fitzgerald's materpieces include The Beautiful and the Damned, The Great Gatsby, and Tender Is the Night. He died at the age of forty-four while working on The Last Tycoon. Fitzgerald's fiction has secured his reputation as one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century.