This Side of Paradise

Fitzgerald''s classic coming-of-age tale set against the turbulence of the early 20th century. ''I sure am up in the air. I know I''m not a regular fellow, yet I loathe anybody else that isn''t'' On the eve of a dance at the Greenwich County Club, Amory Blaine''s life reaches its peak. He''s at Princeton. He''s handsome. He looks good in a dinner jacket. And, most importantly, a beautiful girl loves him. But then the night spirals quickly out of control. And as the years roll on, Amory is lost in a sea of change. After serving in France during the Second World War, he returns to America cynical and bored. Never quite able to fit in, he represents a generation of young people from the 1920s who have grown up to find all the wars are fought, all the gods are dead and all faith in man is shaken.

Product details

• Authors: F Scott Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Publisher: Orion
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 26.09.2013
• EAN: 9781409150787
• ISBN: 978-1-4091-5078-7
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 195 mm x 21 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / General, FICTION / Literary, Classic fiction (pre c 1945)