Paradise Lost: A Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald

by David S. Brown

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674504828
• ISBN13: 9780674504820
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.5"