Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age – a term he popularized in his short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age. His first novel, This Side of Paradise, was published in 1920 and was a tremendous critical and commercial success. Fitzgerald followed with The Beautiful and the Damned, The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night. He was working on The Last Tycoon when he died, in Hollywood, in 1940.

A classic, perhaps the supreme American novel

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   Utmärkt semesterlitteratur

   Intressant skildring av en klassiskt amerikansk överklass efter andra världskriget: Lättsamt egoistiskt liv med personliga problem. Man kan inte undgå att reflektera på om inte skildringen återspeglar med vissa anpassningar dagens samhällen både i USA och Sverige.

   Jan C

   05 augusti 2017