The Disenchanted
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Disenchanted
By (Author) Budd Schulberg
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
1st October 2012
United States
Classifications
General
Fiction
813.54
Physical Properties
Paperback
296
Width 153mm, Height 234mm
Description
The Disenchanted tells the tragic story of Manley Halliday, a fabulously successful writer during the 1920sa golden figure in a golden agewho by the late 1930s is forgotten by the literary establishment. Based in part on a real-life and ill-fated writing assignment between the author and F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1939, The Disenchanted stands as one of the most compelling evocations of generational disillusion and fallen American stardom.
Reviews
"[Halliday] will haunt the imagination of all who have the good fortune to be coming, for the first time, to this remarkable novel." --Anthony Burgess
"A living, breathing portrait so vivid you forget who sat for it . . . so valid esthetically that it transcends its corporeal origin and becomes at last a naked, tormented image of that rarely beheld being, a man." --James M. Cain, New York Times
"As Fitzgeraldian as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Halliday is the very essence of 'the lost generation.'" --Library Journal
Author Bio
Budd Schulberg (1914-2009) was born in New York City and grew up in Hollywood, where his father was production chief of Paramount Studios and his mother a successful agent. His many novels include the classic What Makes Sammy Run and The Harder They Fall, and his screenplay for On the Waterfront earned Schulberg an Academy Award in 1954.
