F. Scott Fitzgerald: Overlook Illustrated Lives - Hardcover

Prigozy, Ruth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1585672653 ISBN 13: 9781585672653

Verlag: Overlook Books, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

Scott Fitzgerald's life reads like one of his own stories: a young man of great promise marries into wealth, but beneath the golden surface lie alcoholism, debt, insecurity, and in Fitzgerald's particular case, the mental instability of his beautiful, unconventional wife, Zelda. Many of the photos in this volume have never before been published, including a photo of the location where Fitzgerald and Zelda became engaged, along with rare first edition book jackets, paintings by Zelda, and photos of friends and colleagues. Fitzgerald scholar Ruth Prigozy provides fresh insight into the life of the novelist who, in both his work and life, captured the rise and fall of the Jazz Age.

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Ruth Prigozy is Professor of English at Hofstra University. She is the editor of the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald and one of the three founders of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Society. She was featured in Omnibus's The Great Gatsby program on BBC television in 2001.

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Biographical Details Love literature but lack leisure? Readers who appreciate the bestselling Penguin Lives series in theory but find the volumes a trifle text-heavy in practice will flock to the new Overlook Illustrated Lives series, in which scholars gloss the lives and times of great 20th-century writers in slim books replete with photographs. Ruth Prigozy's F. Scott Fitzgerald ($19.95 158p ISBN 1-58567-265-3; July), Jeremy Adler's Franz Kafka (164p -267-X) and Mary Ann Caws's Virginia Woolf (136p -264-5) make up the first batch; volumes on Nabokov and Beckett are slated for publication this fall. The reproductions of family portraits, letters, movie posters and paintings are fascinating, and the pared-down bios are clean and highly readable.(July)
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The Overlook Press Illustrated Lives series offers a new thumbnail biography of a major twentieth-century writer. This new entry is a worthy addition to a valuable series: readable, accurate, and visually effective. But make no mistake: the focus here is almost entirely biographical. Critical discussion of the writer's work is kept to a minimum. What distinguishes this brief biography is the number and quality of the illustrations. The editors have graced almost every page with telling, sometimes haunting, images of the author, his friends and family, the places and objects that meant so much to him. Thus we can trace the rise and fall of Scott and Zelda in pictures as well as words. The writing is lucid, brisk, and unpretentious--perfect for the casual fan or the student looking for an accessible introduction to the life of this major figure. The book closes with a useful bibliography and a reasonably thorough "life at a glance" chronology. Trygve Thoreson
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Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Overlook Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1585672653
• ISBN 13: 9781585672653
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 143
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