Scott Ernest Authority Failure Success by Matthew Bruccoli Ernest Hemingway Scott (2 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Printing. Second printing. One inch tear along bottom edge of front jacket panel. 1978 Hard Cover. xv, 168 pp. .gives the richest account to date of the Fitzgerald/Hemingway relationship. Not only does it set the dates, but it also provides psychological profiles of two of America's greatest writers. Mr. Bruccoli points out that partisans have been moved to make comparative judgments on Fitzgerald and Hemingway, attempting to defend the stature of one by diminishing the other. This procedure often adduces biographical evidence, but the personal relationship between Fitzgerald and Hemingway has been mythologized. Things that never happened have been printed as facts. What did happen has been distorted. Hemingway is the only source for some of the most widely repeated anecdotes about Fitzgerald.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. by Matthew J. Bruccoli New York: Random House, (1978). First edition, first printing. "First edition" statement and first printing number code sequence to the copyright page. Generously illustrated with photographs. Bruccoli not only provides an accurate record of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway's interactions, and friendship, but examines their frank correspondence for the patterns and personality similarities, differences, influences, domination, weakness, and more. He offers a new perspective on Hemingway and Fitzgerald's psychological profiles, and their writer's friendship. Fine in brown linen over cinnamon boards with silver embossed titles to the front cover and with copper embossed titles to the spine, red-and-yellow headband and tail-band, golden-tan end-papers; in a lightly rubbed, very nearly fine dust jacket; original $8.95 price still intact to the front inner flap. Octavo; 168 pages; notes; appendix.