Book description
Full grown with a long, smoke-coloured beard, requiring the services of
a cane and fonder of cigars than warm milk, Benjamin Button is a very
curious baby indeed. And, as Benjamin becomes increasingly youthful with
the passing years, his family wonders why he persists in the
embarrassing folly of living in reverse. In this imaginative fable of
ageing and the other stories collected here including The Cut-Glass
Bowl in which an ill-meant gift haunts a family s misfortunes, The
Four Fists where a man s life shaped by a series of punches to his
face, and the revelry, mobs and anguish of May Day F. Scott
Fitzgerald displays his unmatched gift as a writer of short stories.
F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in St Paul, Minnesota. In 1920 he
married Zelda Sayre. Their destructive relationship and her subsequent
mental breakdowns became a major 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 Love of the Last Tycoon
(his last and unfinished work), plus six volumes of short stories.
Fitzgerald died suddenly in 1940.
