Book description
“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. F. Scott Fitzgerald
(1896-1941) was one of the literary titans of the 20th century. A member
of the 'Lost Generation' of the 1920s, Fitzgerald's writings best
captured what he termed 'The Jazz Age'. a period of declining
traditional American values, prohibition and speakeasies, and great
leaps in modernist trends.
