The Crack-Up

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The Crack-Up

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ISBN: 9780811218207
author: [美] F·Scott Fitzgerald
publishing house: New Directions
publication date: 2009 -2
binding: Paperback
price: USD 16.95
number of pages: 352

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Crack-Up

[美] F·Scott Fitzgerald   

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The Crack-Up tells the story of Fitzgerald's sudden descent at the age of thirty-nine from glamorous success to empty despair, and his determined recovery. Compiled and edited by Edmund Wilson shortly after F. Scott Fitzgerald's death, this revealing collection of his essays-as well as letters to and from Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, T.S. Eliot, John Dos Passos-tells of a man with charm and talent to burn, whose gaiety and genius made him a living symbol of the Jazz Age, and whose recklessness brought him grief and loss. "Fitzgerald's physical and spiritual exhaustion is described brilliantly," noted The New York Review of Books: "the essays are amazing for the candor."

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