Book description
Anthony and Gloria are the essence of Jazz Age glamour. A brilliant
and magnetic couple, they fling themselves at life with an energy that
is thrilling. New York is a playground where they dance and drink for
days on end. Their marriage is a passionate theatrical performance;
they are young, rich, alive and lovely and they intend to inherit the earth.
But as money becomes tight, their marriage becomes impossible. And
with their inheritance still distant, Anthony ang Gloria must grow up
and face reality; they may be beautiful but they are also damned.
F. Scott Fizgerald was born in 1896 in St Paul, Minnesota, and went
to Princeton University, which he left in 1917 to join the army. He was
said to have epitomized the Jazz Age, which he himself defined as 'a
generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths
in man shaken'. In 1920 he married Zelda Sayre. Their traumatic marriage
and her subsequent breakdowns became the leading influence on his
writing. Among his publications were five novels, This Side of Paradise,
The Great Gatsby, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender is the Night and The
Last Tycoon (his last and unfinished work). Fitzgerald died suddenly in
1940.
