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A young Harvard graduate with bright prospects, Bill Frothington is invited on board a steamer hosting a high-school dance, where he meets and falls in love with the seventeen-year-old Mae. As the match is not considered socially advantageous enough, Bill moves on, marries and has a career, but he remains painfully nostalgic for that episode on the river. A poignant tale which touches on the themes of yearning and lost youth that are central to many of Fitzgerald’s novels and stories, ‘The Love Boat’ is here presented with other lesser-known pieces which he wrote in the 1920s and explore the many facets of his creative talents.

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He was better than he knew, for in fact and in the literary sense he invented a generation. * The New York Times *

Table of Contents
Contains: The Smilers, Myra Meets His Family, Two for a Cent, Dice, Brassknuckles and Guitar, Diamond Dick and the First Law of Woman, The Third Casket, The Unspeakable Egg, John Jackson's Arcady, The Pusher-in-the-Face, One of My Oldest Friends, Not in the Guidebook, Presumption, The Adolescent Marriage, Your Way and Mine, The Love Boat.

The Love Boat and Other Stories

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      Publisher Alma Classics
      Published 15 July 2015
      ISBN-13 9781847494146
      978-1847494146
      ISBN-10 1847494145

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A young Harvard graduate with bright prospects, Bill Frothington is invited on board a steamer hosting a high-school dance, where he meets and falls in love with the seventeen-year-old Mae. As the match is not considered socially advantageous enough, Bill moves on, marries and has a career, but he remains painfully nostalgic for that episode on the river. A poignant tale which touches on the themes of yearning and lost youth that are central to many of Fitzgerald’s novels and stories, ‘The Love Boat’ is here presented with other lesser-known pieces which he wrote in the 1920s and explore the many facets of his creative talents.

      Trade Review
      He was better than he knew, for in fact and in the literary sense he invented a generation. * The New York Times *

      Table of Contents
      Contains: The Smilers, Myra Meets His Family, Two for a Cent, Dice, Brassknuckles and Guitar, Diamond Dick and the First Law of Woman, The Third Casket, The Unspeakable Egg, John Jackson's Arcady, The Pusher-in-the-Face, One of My Oldest Friends, Not in the Guidebook, Presumption, The Adolescent Marriage, Your Way and Mine, The Love Boat.

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