Product Details
Scribner, August 2007
eBook, 64 pages
ISBN-10: 1416570462
ISBN-13: 9781416570462
Description
Today, F. Scott Fitzgerald is known for his novels, but in his lifetime, his fame stemmed from his prolific achievement as one of America's most gifted story writers. "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," a witty and fantastical satire about aging, is one of his most memorable stories.
In 1860 Benjamin Button is born an old man and mysteriously begins aging backward. At the beginning of his life he is withered and worn, but as he continues to grow younger he embraces life -- he goes to war, runs a business, falls in love, has children, goes to college and prep school, and, as his mind begins to devolve, he attends kindergarten and eventually returns to the care of his nurse.
This strange and haunting story embodies the sharp social insight that has made Fitzgerald one of the great voices in the history of American literature.
Joseph CoatesChicago TribuneBruccoli gives [us]...a virtually new and vastly amplified Fitzgerald.
Leonard A. PodisThe Cleveland Plain DealerThis is a valuable collection, whether one reads the stories to delight in Fitzgerald's style, to conjure up a lost era, to learn more about the career of a great American novelist, or simply to gain insight into the human condition.
Jay McInerneyThe New York Review of BooksOne pleasure of rereading Fitzgerald's stories now is to rediscover just how good some of them in fact are, and how brilliant a handful.
Mark CaldwellThe Philadelphia InquirerMore than enough to re-establish Fitzgerald as a master of the American short story.
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The Pat Hobby StoriesA fascinating study in self-satire that brings to life the Hollywood years of F. Scott FitzgeraldThe setting: Hollywood: the character: Pat Hobby, a...Read More
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A Life in LettersA vibrant self-portrait of an artist whose work was his life.In this new collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald's letters, edited by leading Fitzgerald...Read More
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