Title : A Diamond as Big as the Ritz - Francis Scott Fitzgerald - book

Summary :

In Fitzgerald's eyes, Hemingway said, the rich were a special breed, surrounded by a mysterious prestige. All his life, the author of "The Gatsby" searched for his "Diamond as Big as the Ritz," the title of the disturbing and delicious masterpiece that opens this collection of short stories. In this fairy tale, in which we see a poor young man enter, at his own risk, a fabulous estate with halls of sapphires and mountains of diamonds, how can we fail to recognize the central theme of his entire work? The thirty short stories collected by his friend and contemporary Malcolm Cowley constitute the most representative part of the art of the extravagant, melancholic, and tender Fitzgerald. Behind the glitter of the Roaring Twenties, we glimpse the extraordinary and sad destiny of the great jazz-age entertainer, hero and martyr of the "Lost Generation."

• EAN: 9782266062954
• Used book
• Book in good condition
• The book matches the photo