Some Sort of Epic Grandeur: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald - Hardcover

Bruccoli, Matthew Joseph

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0151832420 ISBN 13: 9780151832422

Publisher: Harcourt, 1981

Synopsis

This biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald investigates the relationship between his novels and his magazine work, documents his finances, and discusses his disastrous marriage to Zelda and difficult relationship with Hemingway

About this title

About the Author

Matthew J. Bruccoli, the Emily Brown Jefferies Professor of English at the University of South Carolina, is the leading authority on F. Scott Fitzgerald. He has written and edited more than fifty volumes in the field of American literature, a score of them dealing with Fitzgerald.

Review

"I fully expect that this will be the indispensable biography of a very great American writer...." -- James Dickey

"Impeccably researched... both comphrensive and judicious...Bruccoli brings Fitzgerald vividily alive." -- Newsweek

"Indispensable and definitive." -- The Times Literary Supplement

"Indispensable and definitive." -- The Times Literary Supplement

"It is difficult to imagine any work on Fitzgerald and his literary product that will supplant this one." -- The New Yorker

"It is difficult to imagine any work on Fitzgerald and his literary product that will supplant this one."- -- The New Yorker

"This masterpiece contains exactly what we need to know about this dazzling figure." -- Publishers Weekly

Edition details

• Publisher: Harcourt
• Publication date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0151832420
• ISBN 13: 9780151832422
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 624