The Crack-up
With Other Miscellaneous Pieces, Excerpts from Note-books and Letters by F. Scott Fitzgerald Together with Letters to Fitzgerald from Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, T.S. Eliot, Thomas Wolfe, and John Dos Passos, and Essays and Poems by Paul Rosenfeld, Glenway Wescott, John Dos Passos, John Peale Biship, and Edmj D Wilson
New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2009.
Format: Book
Description: 347 pages ; 21 cm.
The Crack-Up tells the story of Fitzgerald's sudden descent at the age of thirty-nine from glamorous success to empty despair, and his determined recovery. Compiled and edited by Edmund Wilson shortly after F. Scott Fitzgerald's death, this revealing collection of his essays--as well as letters to and from Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, T.S. Eliot, John Dos Passos--tells of a man with charm and talent to burn, whose gaiety and genius made him a living symbol of the Jazz Age, and whose recklessness brought him grief and loss. "Fitzgerald's physical and spiritual exhaustion is described brilliantly," noted The New York Review of Books: "the essays are amazing for the candor."
Series: New Directions paperbook ; NDP 1135.
Contents:
Echoes of the Jazz Age -- My lost city -- Ring -- "Show Mr. and Mrs. F. to number -- / by F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald -- Auction -- model 1934 / by F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald -- Sleeping and waking -- The crack-up -- Early success -- The note-books. Anecdotes ; Bright clippings ; Conversation and things overheard ; Descriptions of things and atmosphere ; Epigrams, wisecracks, and jokes ; Feelings and emotions (without girls) ; Descriptions of girls ; Descriptions of humanity (physical) ; Ideas ; Jingles and songs ; Karacters ; Literary ; Moments (what people do) ; Nonsense and stray phrases ; Observations ; Rough stuff ; Scenes and situations ; Titles ; Unclassified ; Vernacular ; Youth and army -- Letters to friends -- Letters to Frances Scott Fitzgerald -- Three letters about "The great Gatsby" / from Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton and T. S. Eliot -- A letter from John Dos Passos -- A letter from Thomas Wolfe -- F. Scott Fitzgerald / by Paul Rosenfeld -- The moral of Scott Fitzgerald / by Glenway Wescott -- A note on Fitzgerald / by John Dos Passos -- The hours / by John Peale Bishop.
Subjects:
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940 -- Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940 -- Correspondence.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940 -- Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940 -- Correspondence.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940.
ISBN:
9780811218207 (acid-free paper)
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LITERATURE Fit | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
"A New Directions book."
Includes bibliographical references.
Includes bibliographical references.