The Beautiful and Damned

Informationen zum Autor Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age – a term he popularized in his short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age . His first novel, This Side of Paradise, was published in 1920 and was a tremendous critical and commercial success. Fitzgerald followed with The Beautiful and the Damned , The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night . He was working on The Last Tycoon when he died, in Hollywood, in 1940. Geoff Dyer is the author of four novels and numerous non-fiction books, including But Beautiful , which was awarded the Somerset Maugham Prize, and Out of Sheer Rage , which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. The winner of a Lannan Literary Award, the International Centre of Photography's 2006 Infinity Award for writing on photography, the American Academy of Arts and Letters' E. M. Forster Award, a National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism and a Windham-Campbell Prize for non-fiction, Dyer is a regular contributor to many publications in the UK and the US. He lives in California. Klappentext Reissue with a new introduction by Geoff Dyer of the novel capturing the essence of Jazz Age glamour. Zusammenfassung Anthony Patch and his wife Gloria are the essence of Jazz Age glamour. A brilliant and magnetic couple, they fling themselves at life with an energy that is thrilling. Their marriage is a passionate theatrical performance; they are young, rich, alive and lovely and they intend to inherit the earth.

Product details

• Authors: Geoff Dyer, F. Scott Fitzgerald, F Scott Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Assisted by: Geoff Dyer (Introduction), Dyer Geoff (Introduction)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.09.2004
• EAN: 9780141187815
• ISBN: 978-0-14-118781-5
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 197 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Penguin Pocketbooks; Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics; Penguin Pocketbooks
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction: general and literary