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Beautiful Fools
By (Author) R Clifton Spargo
Duckworth Overlook
Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
1st July 2013
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
813.6
Hardback
368
Width 149mm, Height 210mm
478g
Beautiful Fools imagines the relationship between F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald; a lyrical portrayal of an intense romance that ultimately destroyed them. Their standing as one of America's most debonair couples is tarnished by alcoholism, debt and Zelda's increasing instability. But they endure, both unaware that Scott's sudden death will soon end their love story once and for all.
As Baz Luhrmann's new film adaptation of The Great Gatsby, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, comes to the big screen in Summer 2013, R. Clifton Spargo gives us a touching vision of the Fitzgeralds' marriage and the man responsible for one of the greatest classics of the 20th century.
Spargo s voice is entirely his own and is capable of articulating certain ranges of contemporary experience only rarely now available to us. Composed in an alert, open, evocative style, his stories achieve an individual voice which is sustained throughout -- Harold Bloom, author of The Western Canon
Spargo s emotionally gripping stories are smart, taut, and unpredictable. He s a welcome new voice in American fiction * Tom Perrotta, author of Little Children *
R. Clifton Spargo has won Glimmer Train's Award for New Writers as well as their Fiction Open Contest, and is a recent finalist for the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. He is a graduate of Edinburgh University and has taught creative writing at numerous universities. He also writes a blog for The Huffington Post.