Hemingway Vs. Fitzgerald: The Rise and Fall of a Literary Friendship - Hardcover

Donaldson, Scott

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0879517115 ISBN 13: 9780879517113

Publisher: Overlook Pr, 1999

Synopsis

HardCover Pub Date: 1999 09 Pages: 320 Publisher: Overlook Hardcover Paris In The 20s: The era of literary Expatriates Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald continues to burn in The Imagination as a time of with unparalleled glamor and romance. This legendary friendship - and rivalry - was compellingly chronicled by Hemingway in A Moveable Feast. but as Hemingway reminded the reader. that book is fiction. Here. in Hemingway vs. Fitzgerald. prize-winning biographer Scott Donaldson goes beyond the mythologizing to create a true. multi-faceted narrative of a great friendship fueled by admiration. jealousy. and liquor - a heady mixture of literary scholarship. history. and vivid storytelling. With a dazzling cast of characters that includes legendary Scribner's editor Maxwell Perkins. socialites Gerald and Sara Murphy. Zelda Fitzgerald. Hadley Hemingway. and writers Gertrude ...

About this title

Product Description:

A chronicle of a fascinating literary friendship and rivalry traces the respect, the envy, and artistic competition that drove Hemingway and Fitzgerald and portrays the Paris of the Lost Generation of expatriates, including Gertrude Stein. 17,500 first printing.

Book Description:

Biographer of both Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author of this text re-examines the friendship between the two American writers. He presents a multifaceted relationship fuelled by admiration, jealousy and liquor.

About this edition

• Publisher: Overlook Pr
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0879517115
• ISBN 13: 9780879517113
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352