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On Booze - Pearls

by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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On Booze - Pearls
On Booze - Pearls

Fitzgerald's literary cocktail of spirited tales.

If you're intrigued by Jazz Age revelry and the glamorously turbulent life of F. Scott Fitzgerald, "On Booze" serves as a meticulously distilled collection. It's a short, potent taste of Fitzgerald's ability to imbue narrative with the vibrancy, and sometimes the melancholy, of the spirited times he both celebrated and struggled with. This compilation will not only entertain but also provide a glimpse into the author's personal encounters with the allure of alcohol, something that deeply colored his life and work.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

On Booze - Pearls

by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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ISBN: 9780811219266
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher: New Directions
Date of Publication: 2011-06-28
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Poetry
Related Topics: Classics, Literature, Classics, Literature
Goodreads rating: 3.4
(rated by 1765 readers)

Description

A collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s best drinking stories makes this the most intoxicating New Directions Pearl yet! “First you take a drink,” F. Scott Fitzgerald once noted, “then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.” Fitzgerald wrote alcohol into almost every one of his stories. On Booze gathers debutantes and dandies, rowdy jazz musicians, lost children and ragtime riff-raff into a newly compiled collection taken from The Crack-Up, and other works never before published by New Directions. On Booze portrays “The Jazz Age” as Fitzgerald experienced it: roaring, rambunctious, and lush ― with quite a hangover.
 

Fitzgerald's literary cocktail of spirited tales.

If you're intrigued by Jazz Age revelry and the glamorously turbulent life of F. Scott Fitzgerald, "On Booze" serves as a meticulously distilled collection. It's a short, potent taste of Fitzgerald's ability to imbue narrative with the vibrancy, and sometimes the melancholy, of the spirited times he both celebrated and struggled with. This compilation will not only entertain but also provide a glimpse into the author's personal encounters with the allure of alcohol, something that deeply colored his life and work.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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