By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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In 1921 F. Scott Fitzgerald was once twenty-five and heralded because the such a lot promising author of his iteration, as a result of the luck of his first novel This part of Paradise. lately married to the lady of his goals, the previous Zelda Sayre, Fitzgerald equipped upon his unexpected prosperity with the gorgeous and the Damned, a cautionary story of reckless ambition and squandered expertise set amid the glitter of Jazz Age ny.
The novel chronicles the connection of Anthony Patch, a Harvard-educated, aspiring author, and his appealing younger spouse, Gloria. whereas they look ahead to Anthony’s grandfather to die and cross his thousands directly to them, the younger couple enjoys an unending string of events, touring, and extravagance. starting with the pop and champagne of existence itself, the gorgeous and the Damned speedy evolves right into a scathing chronicle of a demise marriage and a hedonistic society during which attractiveness is all too fleeting.
A fierce parable concerning the illusory caliber of desires, the intractable nature of truth, and the smash wrought through time, the attractive and the Damned eerily anticipates the dissipation and decline that will come to the Fitzgeralds themselves earlier than the last decade had run its path.
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