Fool for love : F. Scott Fitzgerald / Scott Donaldson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Donaldson, Scott, 1928-2020.

Series:

Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage

Fesler-Lampert Minnesota heritage book series

Gansett Island, 2.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott.

Authors, American--20th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (293 p.)

Edition:

1st University of Minnesota Press ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Fool for Love is Scott Donaldson's masterful biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald-written from a fresh and highly intimate perspective. Fool for Love follows Fitzgerald from his birthplace in St. Paul, Minnesota, to Princeton and upward into the highest reaches of literary and public success-and ultimately to Fitzgerald's untimely death in Hollywood at the age of forty-four, broke and nearly forgotten. This engrossing, definitive study explores two classic Fitzgerald themes throughout-love and class-and the result is a striking portrayal of one of the twentieth century's great

Contents:

Cover; Contents; PREFACE; 1 A Man with No People; 2 Princeton 17; 3 ""I Love You, Miss X""; 4 Darling Heart; 5 Genius and Glass; 6 The Glittering Things; 7 War Between the Sexes; 8 Running Amuck; 9 Cracking Up; 10 Demon Drink; 11 The Worst Thing; 12 ""a writer only""; NOTES; INDEX;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-8202-X

OCLC:

826854546