Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Price: $9.75

Category:Literature & Fiction
Publication Date:2014-08-28T00:00:01Z
Pages:268
Binding:Paperback
ISBN:10:1500982318
ISBN:13:9781500982317
His is the voice of a generation. During his own time, however, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, author of THE GREAT GATSBY and other now-revered works, was known primarily through the voice of Amory Blaine. Narrator and protagonist of Fitzgerald's semi-autobiographical THIS SIDE OF PARADISE, Amory Blaine is the privileged son of a fading era. Handsome and intellectually ambitious-he struggles to find meaning and value during a period when those qualities are increasingly difficult to define. After the first horrific world war, Gertrude Stein labeled Fitzgerald's contemporaries "the Lost Generation." The post-war young found themselves unable and unwilling to revive the goals and mores of their parents. F. Scott Fitzgerald spoke for that generation as a young author and established his claim as one of the leading-if not THE leading-American writer of the first half of the twentieth century.