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On Booze

On Booze

by F . Scott Fitzgerald (Author)

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    Hardcover 2011

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Synopsis

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. On Booze portrays The Jazz Age as Fitzgerald experienced it: roaring, rambunctious, and lush-with quite a hangover.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 96
 Publisher: Picador
Published: 04 Nov 2011
ISBN 10: 1447202473
ISBN 13: 9781447202479

Media Reviews
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
Author Bio
Among the Lost Generation of writers that came of age during the Roaring Twenties, the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) epitomized The Jazz Age : a period of declining traditional values, prohibition and speakeasies, and great artistic leaps. Fitzgerald's first novel, This Side of Paradise, was a financial success, but subsequent ones, including his masterpiece, The Great Gatsby, sold poorly. In need of money, he turned to writing commercial short stories and Hollywood scripts, while his lifelong alcoholism destroyed his health and led to an early death. The 1945 reissue of The Great Gatsby spurred a wide resurgence of interest, and Fitzgerald is now considered one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century.