Anthony Patch discovers that the excesses of his financially-secure world prevent him from finding married happiness.
Awaiting the inheritance of his grandfather's fortune, Harvard-educated athlete Anthony Patch and his wife Gloria witness the impact of alcohol and avarice on their reckless marriage, in this acclaimed novel set in the roaring 'twenties. Reissue.
The classic novel of greed and vice from F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Set in an era of intoxicating excitement and ruinous excess, changing manners and challenged morals, F. Scott Fitzgeralds 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, Zeldafrom its giddy romantic beginnings to its alcohol-fueled demise. A portrait of greed, ambition, and squandered talent,The Beautiful and Damned depicts an America embarked on the greatest spree in its history, a world Fitzgerald saw with clearer eyes than any of his contemporaries.* By turns hilarious, heartbreaking, and chillingly prophetic, it remains one of his best-known works, which Gertrude Stein correctly predicted will be read when many of his well-known contemporaries are forgotten.
*Tobias Wolff
The classic novel of greed and vice from F. Scott Fitzgerald.Set in an era of intoxicating excitement and ruinous excess, changing manners and challenged morals, F. Scott Fitzgeralds 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, Zeldafrom its giddy romantic beginnings to its alcohol-fueled demise. A portrait of greed, ambition, and squandered talent,
The Beautiful and Damned depicts an America embarked on the greatest spree in its history, a world Fitzgerald saw with clearer eyes than any of his contemporaries.* By turns hilarious, heartbreaking, and chillingly prophetic, it remains one of his best-known works, which Gertrude Stein correctly predicted will be read when many of his well-known contemporaries are forgotten.
*Tobias Wolff
