This side of paradise / F. Scott Fitzgerald ; with an introduction by Craig Raine.
Material type: TextSeries: Everyman's library ; 227Publication details: New York : A.A. Knopf, c1996.Description: xxxi, 264 p. ; 22 cmISBN:- 0679447237 (acidfree paper)
- 813/.52 21
- PS3511.I9 T48 1996j
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | Fiction | Fitzgerald, F Scot | Checked out | 05/17/2024 | 33111004606337 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
F. Scott Fitzgerald's extraordinary career as a novelist ended abruptly and unhappily, but it began with one of the most brilliant first novels in the history of American literature. Published when its author was just twenty-three, This Side of Paradise is about the education of a youth, and to this universal story Fitzgerald brought the promise of everything that was new in the vigorous, restless America during the years following World War I. Amory Blaine-egoistic, versatile, callow, and imaginative-inhabits a book that is interwoven with songs, poems, playscripts, and questions and answers. His growth from self-absorption to sexual awareness and personhood is described by means of a continuous improvisatory energy and delight. Far from being distracting, Fitzgerald's formal inventiveness and verve only heighten our sense that the world being described is our own modern world. A profound coherence informs This Side of Paradise -a coherence born of its author's uncanny ability to revel in the fragmented surfaces of human life while exploring and comprehending its serene depths.
Includes bibliographical references (p. xxi-xxii).