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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext "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.A charming collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s best writing about drink – a most intoxicating read! Zusammenfassung A charming collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s best writing about drink – a most intoxicating read! Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter - 1: Selections from the Notebooks Chapter - 2: The Crack-Up Chapter - 3: “Show Mr. and Mrs. F. to Number——” Chapter - 4: Sleeping and Waking Chapter - 5: My Lost City Chapter - 6: Selections from the Letters
