The Last Tycoon (Collins Classics)
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Last Tycoon (Collins Classics)
By (Author) F. Scott Fitzgerald
HarperCollins Publishers
William Collins
23rd June 2014
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
Classic fiction: general and literary
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
Film history, theory or criticism
Film: styles and genres
Literary theory
Literary essays
Modern and contemporary plays (c 1900 onwards)
Social and cultural history
813.52
Physical Properties
Paperback
192
Width 111mm, Height 178mm, Spine 12mm
110g
Description
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They were smiling at each other as if this was the beginning of the world.
The lights of Hollywood do little to distract Cecelia as she watches Monroe Stahr, wunderkind studio executive and object of her desire, descend into a reckless and ardent love affair with an auspicious starlet an affair that threatens to destroy his reign as the Silver Screens golden boy. In this tragic tale Fitzgerald exposes the corruption, sex and towering ambition at the dark heart of 1930s Hollywood.
Unfinished at the time of his death, F. Scott Fitzgerald bids his own poignant farewell to the themes that inspired The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night and The Beautiful and Damned.
Reviews
'Wonderful a novel about Hollywood, written from the inside'
Helen Dunmore, Sunday Times
It would have been Fitzgerald's best novel . . . absorbing reading New York Times
Author Bio
F. Scott Fitzgerald (18961940) is regarded as one of the greatest American authors of the 20th century. His short stories and novels are set in the American Jazz Age of the Roaring Twenties and include This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender Is the Night, The Great Gatsby, The Last Tycoon, and Tales of the Jazz Age.
