Book description
Amory Blaine, intent on rebelling against his staid, Midwestern
upbringing, longs to acquire the patina of Eastern sophistication. In
his quest for sexual and intellectual enlightenment, he progresses
through a series of relationships, until he is cast out into the real
world. F Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) left Princeton University in
1917 to join the army. He is 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 entered a traumatic
marriage which was to influence much of his writing.
