The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: and Other Tales of the Jazz Age - Softcover

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0979660777 ISBN 13: 9780979660771

Publisher: Coyote Canyon Press, 2014

Synopsis

"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is one of F. Scott Fitzgerald's most memorable short stories. The protagonist, Benjamin Button, is born an old man and ages in reverse until he becomes a baby and then finally vanishes from the earth. In a short introduction to the story, Fitzgerald wrote: "This story was inspired by a remark of Mark Twain's to the effect that it was a pity that the best part of life came at the beginning and the worst part at the end. By trying the experiment upon only one man in a perfectly normal world I have scarcely given his idea a fair trial. Several weeks after completing it, I discovered an almost identical plot in Samuel Butler's 'Note-books.' "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" was the inspiration for the major motion picture of the same name and remains one of Fitzgerald's most haunting and beautiful tales. This collection also includes three other Jazz Age tales by Fitzgerald.

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Review

Joseph Coates

"Chicago Tribune"

Bruccoli gives [us]...a virtually new and vastly amplified Fitzgerald.

Mark Caldwell

"The Philadelphia Inquirer"

More than enough to re-establish Fitzgerald as a master of the American short story.

Jay McInerney

"The New York Review of Books"

One pleasure of rereading Fitzgerald's stories now is to rediscover just how good some of them in fact are, and how brilliant a handful.

Leonard A. Podis

"The Cleveland Plain Dealer"

This is a valuable collection, whether one reads the stories to delight in Fitzgerald's style, to conjure up a lost era, to learn more about the career of a great American novelist, or simply to gain insight into the human condition.

Joseph Coates Chicago Tribune Bruccoli gives [us]...a virtually new and vastly amplified Fitzgerald.

Mark Caldwell The Philadelphia Inquirer More than enough to re-establish Fitzgerald as a master of the American short story.

Jay McInerney The New York Review of Books One pleasure of rereading Fitzgerald's stories now is to rediscover just how good some of them in fact are, and how brilliant a handful.

Leonard A. Podis The Cleveland Plain Dealer This is a valuable collection, whether one reads the stories to delight in Fitzgerald's style, to conjure up a lost era, to learn more about the career of a great American novelist, or simply to gain insight into the human condition.

Joseph Coates"Chicago Tribune"Bruccoli gives [us]...a virtually new and vastly amplified Fitzgerald.

Mark Caldwell"The Philadelphia Inquirer"More than enough to re-establish Fitzgerald as a master of the American short story. --Mark Caldwell

"One pleasure of rereading Fitzgerald's stories now is to rediscover just how good some of them in fact are, and how brilliant a handful. --Jay McInerney"The New York Review of Books

"This is a valuable collection, whether one reads the stories to delight in Fitzgerald's style, to conjure up a lost era, to learn more about the career of a great American novelist, or simply to gain insight into the human condition. --Leonard A. Podis"The Cleveland Plain Dealer

Edition details

• Publisher: Coyote Canyon Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0979660777
• ISBN 13: 9780979660771
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 108