The Jazz Age: Essays (New Directions Bibelot) - Softcover

Fitzgerald, F. Scott; Doctorow, E. L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811213331 ISBN 13: 9780811213332

Publisher: New Directions, 2005

Synopsis

Even theAmerican Heritage Dictionary acknowledges that F. Scott Fitzgerald epitomized the Jazz Age. And nowhere among his writings are the gin, pith, and morning-after squint of that era better illuminated than in these short essays. Selected in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Fitzgerald's birth, these candid personal memoirs one written with his wife, Zelda furnish nothing less than the autobiography of "the lost generation" of the 1920s. "He lacked armor," EL. Doctorow, author of The Waterworks, Ragtime, and Billy Bathgates, notes in his introduction. He did not live in protective seclusion, as Faulkner. He was not carapaced in self-presentation, as Hemingway. He jumped right into the foolish heart of everything, as he had into the Plaza fountain." The Jazz Age is a celebration of one of the twentieth century's most vital writers."

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Review:

"Small and curious articles of virtu or objects of art"

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: New Directions
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0811213331
• ISBN 13: 9780811213332
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96