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Pigeonholed in popular memory as a Jazz Age epicurean, a playboy, and an emblem of the Lost Generation, F. Scott Fitzgerald was at heart a moralist struck by the nation's shifting mood and manners after World War I. In Paradise Lost, David Brown contends that Fitzgerald's deepest allegiances were to a fading antebellum world he associated with his father's Chesapeake Bay roots. Yet as a midwesterner, an Irish Catholic, and a perpetually in-debt author, he felt like an outsider in the haute bourgeoisie haunts of Lake Forest, Princeton, and Hollywood places that left an indelible mark on his worldview. In this comprehensive biography, Brown reexamines Fitzgerald's childhood, first loves, and difficult marriage to Zelda Sayre. He looks at Fitzgerald's friendship with Hemingway, the golden years that culminated with Gatsby, and his increasing alcohol abuse and declining fortunes which coincided with Zelda's institutionalization and the nation's economic collapse.

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Book category Books in English Mathematics & science Biology, life sciences

• Full title: Paradise Lost
• Author: David S. Brown
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 424
• EAN: 9780674504820
• ISBN: 0674504828
• ID: 14584086
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Weight: 812 g
• Dimensions: 240 × 164 × 31 mm
• Date of publishing: 26. May 2017

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