THE LAST TYCOON COLLINS — F SCOTT FITZGERALD

Yayınevi COLLINS CLASSICS Yazar F SCOTT FITZGERALD Dil İNGİLİZCE Sayfa Sayısı 175 SAYFA Yıl 2010

Yayınevi COLLINS CLASSICS Yazar F SCOTT FITZGERALD Dil İNGİLİZCE Yıl 2016

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best loved essential classics Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure Set on the French Riviera in the 1920s American Dick Diver and his wife Nicole are the epitome of chic living a glamorous lifestyle and entertaining friends at their villa Young film star Rosemary Hoyt arrives in France and becomes entranced by the couple It is not long before she is attracted to the enigmatic Dick but he and his wife hold dark secrets and as their marriage becomes more fractured Fitzgerald laments the failure of idealism and the carefully constructed trappings of high society in the Roaring Twenties

From the author of The Great Gatsby a tale of marriage and disappointment in the Roaring Twenties Fitzgerald s rich and detailed novel of the decadent Jazz Era follows the beautiful and vibrant Anthony Patch and his wife Gloria as they navigate the heady lifestyle of the young and wealthy in 1920s New York Patch is the presumptive heir to his grandfather s fortune and keeps his equally spoiled wife in comfort while biding time until his grandfather s death Patch is unable to hold down any kind of job and spends his days in luxury indulging in whatever pleasures are available But as the money begins to fail so does their marriage Patch s gradual descent into alcoholism depression and alienation from his marriage ultimately lead to his ruin Fitzgerald s novel is a remorseless exploration of the horrors of an age of excess and lost innocence F Scott Fitzgerald is regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century Despite his present popularity Fitzgerald was often in financial trouble due to the fact that only one of his novels sold well enough to support the extravagant lifestyle that he and his wife Zelda adopted and later Zelda s medical bills His novel The Great Gatsby has sold millions of copies and remains a continual bestseller

They were smiling at each other as if this was the beginning of the world The lights of Hollywood do little to distract Cecelia as she watches Monroe Stahr wunderkind studio executive and object of her desire descend into a reckless and ardent love affair with an auspicious starlet an affair that threatens to destroy his reign as the Silver Screen s golden boy In this tragic tale Fitzgerald exposes the corruption sex and towering ambition at the dark heart of 1930s Hollywood Unfinished at the time of his death F Scott Fitzgerald bids his own poignant farewell to the themes that inspired The Great Gatsby Tender is the Night and The Beautiful and Damned