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The Last Tycoon
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Description for The Last Tycoon
Paperback. A mesmerising and lavish story of Hollywood's Golden Age from the author of The Great Gatsby. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 170.
A mesmerising and lavish story of Hollywood's Golden Age from the author of The Great Gatsby.
1930s Hollywood. The depression has receded, the studios are booming, and the glitz and glamour are bewitching. But for Cecilia Brady, this is just life. That is, until she meets Monroe Stahr...
Stahr is at the centre of it all. A genius production chief in the Golden Age of Hollywood. Cecilia is mesmerised. But Stahr's attentions are caught elsewhere - in the arms of a mysterious woman - and Cecilia watches as a passionate but doomed love affair unfolds.
Little by ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781409150374
SKU
V9781409150374
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About F. Scott Fitzgerald
Born in 1896, Fitzgerald was considered a member of the 'Lost Generation', along with Steinbeck, T.S. Eliot and Waldo Peirce. His novels epitomize the Jazz Age - a term he coined himself - and The Great Gatsby is often considered to be 'the great American novel'. In 1937, Fitzgerald moved to Hollywood to try and write himself ... Read more
Reviews for The Last Tycoon
It would have been Fitzgerald's best novel . . . Even in this truncated form it not only makes absorbing reading; it is the best piece of creative writing that we have about one phase of American life - Hollywood and the movies
New York Times
Wonderful . . . a novel about Hollywood, written ... Read more
New York Times
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