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Book SynopsisFrancis Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age a term he popularized in his short story collection
Tales of the Jazz Age. His first novel,
This Side of Paradise, was published in 1920 and was a tremendous critical and commercial success. Fitzgerald followed with
The Beautiful and the Damned,
The Great Gatsby and
Tender is the Night . He was working on
The Last Tycoon when he died, in Hollywood, in 1940.
Trade ReviewA tragedy backlit by beauty * Daily Express *
For Fitzgerald desolation is a precondition of the lyrical. Hence the most distinctive impression of
Tender: a beautiful novel about failure * Independent *
It is one of those books that you read and feel a shift...the story is told so poetically and eloquently. It is one of those books that you read and think: if I could only remember that sentence - it is so beautiful -- Sam Taylor-Wood
No one has written more elegiacally about America... Fitzgerald, like his revered Keats, was a compulsive nostalgic, locating happiness in the search for sensation rather than in its realisation; in the dream of desire, not in its fulfilment * Guardian *
In just a snatch of dialogue or a few lines of description, Fitzgerald can evoke the happy, troubled and perilous balance of a group of friends... He has an acute eye and ear for the nuances of character... an exquisitely crafted piece of fiction -- Melissa Benn * Independent *
