The disenchanted
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| Rating | : | 4.48 (936 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0450003280 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 319 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Scott Fitzgerald's career provides and even sharper and more unforgetable portrait of the Jazz Age than anything Fitagerald himself ever wrote-a strong and compelling novel.. This fictionalized story of F
Their Own Season Daniel Myers This book, published in 1950, is the best book on Scott Fitzgerald I've ever read, and I've read the most acclaimed autobiographies. Schulberg, who is still alive at 94, by the way, as of this writing, somehow manages, with consummate skill and pathos, through the lengthy, inebriated flashbacks herein, to capture the life of Scott and Zelda at their zenith in the 1920s as no other writer (of whom I'm aware) has:"Even though he was quite sure of what was ahead, a vestigial, irremovable romanticism hurried him on. His mind's eye, in. Wendy Kaplan said The Best View of Fitzgerald Ever Written. Written in 1950, "The Disenchanted" is the thinly disguised story of F. Scott Fitzgerald in his alcoholic decline, when life had overtaken him to the point that his genius could no longer be expressed in the only way he knew how: his writing.When Budd Schulberg was at Dartmouth College, he was assigned to accompany the fabled Fitzgerald while the great man made a stab at writing a screenplay for Hollywood. As Fitzgerald afficionados well know, this humiliating attempt at regaining his literary glory was a disaster for Fitzerald, a. "Life does not take positions" according to A Customer. I read it - and was amazed how it crept in slowly and overwhelmed me. This is the story about a writer. It is difficult to explain in a short review why this story is so fascinating, there are a lot of details involved in demonstrating author's position. The hero lives, loves, and loses his love in a most unexpected, prosaic - and that is why very life-like - fashion. Just his charming wife eventually becomes an alcoholic, a hysterical, unpleasant woman. He doesn't see the person he loves in her anymore. But he misses that person