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Title: F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Love of the Last Tycoon : A Western by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli ISBN: 0-521-40231-X Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 24 December, 1993 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $48.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A glimpse of an artist at work
Comment: Writers are endlessly second-guessing their work habits, their ideas and their purpose. As a novelist myself, I found this work-in-progress comforting, because it showed that even the greatest writers struggle with "The Process." Fitzgerald's inherent talent shines through, despite the incomplete nature of the work. The notes and other addenda helped shape the story even further for me, leaving it perhaps more fascinating for the wonder of what Fitzgerald might have done had he not died so young. I have groused in the past about the release of several Hemingway books after his death, and none has come close to the feeling of this unfinished work, but I cannot dispute the value to the reader of seeing these words, these last words, of one of America's greatest novelists. I am happy I got the chance.
Rating: 4
Summary: A glimpse into genius at work
Comment: Writers are endlessly second-guessing their work habits, their ideas and their purpose. As a novelist myself, I found this work-in-progress comforting, because it showed that even the greatest writers struggle with "The Process." Fitzgerald's inherent talent shines through, despite the incomplete nature of the work. The notes and other addenda helped shape the story even further for me, leaving it perhaps more fascinating for the wonder of what Fitzgerald might have done had he not died so young. I have groused in the past about the release of several Hemingway books after his death, and none has come close to the feeling of this unfinished work, but I cannot dispute the value to the reader of seeing these words, these last words, of one of America's greatest novelists. I am happy I got the chance.
Rating: 5
Summary: There will never be another F. Scott Fitzgerald
Comment: No other author in history has so astutely penned such profound and sublime novels with such amazing social insight as has Scottie(as his contemporaries called him) - all the while doing it with such amazing and unparalleled grace and lucidity. While The Love of the Last Tycoon may not be finished, I can easily discern that F. Scott was well on his way to achieving his goal -penning a novel on the level of The Great Gatsby and not as "depressing" as Tender is the Night.
What makes this so amazing, yet so painful, is the extraordinary potential that this work exudes. The Last Tycoon does seem to be like Gatsby moreso than any other Fitzgerald work in its endearing and sympathetic characters such as the self-made Monroe Stahr, the young Cecilia, & tragic Kathleen. As usual, Fitzgerald recreates and tells of his life experiences - this time of his tumultuous years in Hollywood as a screen writer. Although hardened somewhat at this stage of his career, Fitzgerald, like his hero Stahr, still purveys his characteristic idealism laced with a latent hint of foreboding tragedy inevitably awaiting on the horizon. Stahr, like Fitzgerald, is forever viewed as a boy wonder, despite being a seasoned veteran at this stage of his career, due to his overnight success at age 23. So, Fitzgerald, who had the splendid This Side of Paradise published at age 23, and who also was known for his propensity to turn a sickly pale white just as Stahr does, ingeniously incorporates himself into his work one last time.
The incredibly insightful notes, outlines, and revisions written by Fitzgerald shown at the conclusion of the book open an amazing new world of intropection to the reader. I give it 5 stars not for what it is, but for what it would have been. I just finished reading all of his works chronologically and I must say, unequivocally, that this very well could have eclipsed his other works of fiction, all of which are truly sublime.
"It is an escape into a lavish, romantic past that perhaps will not come again into our time." - F. Scott on The Last Tycoon
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Title: TENDER IS THE NIGHT by F. Scott Fitzgerald ISBN: 068480154X Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 01 July, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED by F. Scott Fitzgerald ISBN: 0684801558 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 04 May, 1995 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: This Side Of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L. W. West ISBN: 0684843781 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 14 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Crack-Up by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edmund Wilson ISBN: 0811212475 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Pub. Date: September, 1993 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: SHORT STORIES OF F. SCOTT FITZGERALD : A New Collection by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli ISBN: 068480445X Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 20 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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