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Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 014018077X
ISBN-13: 9780140180770
Jun 1996
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
268 pages
Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
Language: English |
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Synopsis
THIS SIDE OF PARADISE, the novel that established F. Scott Fitzgerald as the voice of his generation, was written while he was in the army, extensively revised, and finally published in 1920 when he was only 23 years old. The young "romantic egoist" Amory Blaine--vain, shallow, and self-absorbed--whose progress from prep school to Princeton frequently parallels Fitzgerald's own life, is the quintessential youth of the postwar "Lost Generation." Fitzgerald's unsparing portrait of a young man who takes himself far too seriously makes THIS SIDE OF PARADISE one of his most endearing and entertaining books. Upon its publication, Fitzgerald became an instant literary superstar, and this early fame--and his inability to mature--helped bring about the downfall, only 20 years later, of a major American writer.
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Publisher's Notes
First Line: "Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while. His father, an ineffectual, inarticulate man with a taste for Byron and a habit of drowsing over the Encyclopædia Britannica, grew wealthy at thirty through the death of two elder brothers, successful Chicago brokers, and in the first flush of feeling that the world was his, went to Bar Harbor and met Beatrice O'Hara. In consequence, Stephen Blaine handed down to posterity his height of just under six feet and his tendency to waver at crucial moments, these two abstractions appearing in his son Amory."
Industry Reviews
"'This Side of Paradise' commits almost every sin that a novel can possible commit....But it does not commit the unpardonable sin: it does not fail to live. The whole preposterous farrago is animated with life."
Jacket flap - Edmund Wilson
"This is a bad book about good things."
to H. L. Mencken - F. Scott Fitzgerald (03/20/1930)
"'This Side of Paradise' is a little slice carved out of real life, running over with youth and jazz and virile American humor--everything in short that is dear to a Princeton man (Mr. Fitzgerald himself) or a Yale man, or a Harvard man, or just any kind of man."
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