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Title: Some Sort of Epic Grandeur: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald by Matthew Joseph Bruccoli, Scottie Fitzgerald Smith ISBN: 1-57003-455-9 Publisher: University of South Carolina Press Pub. Date: September, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent biography
Comment: I've admired Fitzgerald all my life and regard his work as singularly underrated as time goes on. He was a brilliant and witty writer who could turn a phrase as well as any American author of the 20th century. This biography is the best I've ever read on Fitzgerald. It's particularly strong in the depiction of his gaudy, booze-soaked life with Zelda, especially when they were ex-pats living in France. Bruccoli really draws the reader in with deft descriptions of their marital rows, woes, break-ups and innumerable reconcilations. I was happy to see that their daughter, Scottie, was also illuminated so brilliantly.
The material on Sheila Graham, Scott's lover in Hollywood, was also intriguing. Graham's own book about Scott is a great read, but the author brings out elements to the story which Graham omitted. I was genuinely sad when Scott dies and the narrative concludes. The debauchery, booze and high times of the Flapper era are all here. This is a highly recommended, beautifully tribute to one of the great writers of the past 100 years.
Rating: 5
Summary: Thorough and honest - excellent!
Comment: From the preeminent Fitzgerald scholar Matthew Bruccoli, this book's remarkable thoroghness and honesty is refreshing. Bruccoli gives the oft misunderstood Fitzgerald a human, albeit, reverent study, exploring beyond the overemphasized alcoholism into the realms of insecurity and sensitivity that had an indelible effect on Fitzgerald's work. The book reads well, without the burden of overly scholarly analysis, making it suitable reading either for doctoral study or simply for a summer beach day.
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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: LIFE IN LETTERS : A NEW COLLECTION EDITED AND ANNOTATED BY MATTHEW J. BRUCCOLI by F. Scott Fitzgerald ISBN: 0684801531 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 03 May, 1995 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Fitzgerald and Hemingway: A Dangerous Friendship by Matthew Joseph Bruccoli ISBN: 0897230531 Publisher: Bruccoli-Clark Layman Pub. Date: December, 1994 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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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: Zelda : A Biography by Nancy Milford ISBN: 0060910690 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 04 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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