This Side of Paradise

ISBN-10: 1500982318
ISBN-13: 9781500982317
Series: This Side of Paradise
Pages: 170
Language: English
Published: 2014-08-28
Author: F. Fitzgerald

Description

His is the voice of a generation. During his own time, however, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, author of THE GREAT GATSBY and other now-revered works, was known primarily through the voice of Amory Blaine. Narrator and protagonist of Fitzgerald's semi-autobiographical THIS SIDE OF PARADISE, Amory Blaine is the privileged son of a fading era. Handsome and intellectually ambitious-he struggles to find meaning and value during a period when those qualities are increasingly difficult to define. After the first horrific world war, Gertrude Stein labeled Fitzgerald's contemporaries "the Lost Generation." The post-war young found themselves unable and unwilling to revive the goals and mores of their parents. F. Scott Fitzgerald spoke for that generation as a young author and established his claim as one of the leading-if not THE leading-American writer of the first half of the twentieth century.