Beautiful and Damned

Beautiful and Damned

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

     

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Издательство: Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2011
ISBN: 978-0-451-53043-1
Объём: 400 страниц

Set in an era of intoxicating excitement and ruinous excess, changing manners and challenged morals, F. Scott Fitzgerald`s second novel chronicles the lives of Harvard-educated Anthony Patch and his beautiful, willful wife, Gloria. This bitingly ironic story eerily foretells the fate of the author and his own wife, Zelda-from its giddy romantic beginnings to its alcohol-fueled end. A portrait of greed, ambition, and squandered talent, The Beautiful and Damned depicts America embarked on the greatest spree in its history, a world Fitzgerald saw, according to Tobias Wolff, "with clearer eyes than any of his contemporaries. Формат: 10,5 см x 17,5 см.