This Side of Paradise
$42.35
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
15 November 2001
Summary
This Side of Paradise is the book that established F. Scott Fitzgerald as the prophet and golden boy of the newly dawned Jazz Age. Published in 1920, when he was just twenty-three, the novel catapulted him to instant fame and financial success.
The story of Amory Blaine, a privileged, aimless, and self-absorbed Princeton student, This Side of Paradise closely reflects Fitzgerald’s own experiences as an undergraduate. Amory Blaine’s journey from prep school to college to the First Worl…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780375758867 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0375758860 |
| Author: | F. Scott Fitzgerald, Susan Orlean |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Modern Library Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 15 November 2001 |
| Weight: | 259g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 131mm x 19mm |
| Series: | Modern Library Classics |
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“As nearly perfect as such a work could be … The glorious spirit of abounding youth glows throughout this fascinating tale. Amory, the romantic egotist, is essentially American.” –The New York Times“[A] bravura display of literary promise … Fitzgerald’s prose is capable of soaring like a violin, and of moving his readers with understated husky notes as well as with notes of piercing purity … Fitzgerald knew that glamour was bound to fail, that there is an ineradicable human instinct for it which is utterly mistaken.” –from the Introduction by Craig Raine
About The Author
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Susan Orlean is the author of The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup, The Orchid Thief, and Saturday Night. She has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1992. She lives in New York City.
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