Fitzgerald and Hemingway: A Dangerous Friendship - Hardcover

Bruccoli, Matthew Joseph

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786700777 ISBN 13: 9780786700776

Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub, 1994

Synopsis

Fifteen years' worth of startling new research material is presented by special permission of the Hemingway estate in this revised edition of the correspondence between 1925 and 1940, including a group of Hemingway's letters about Fitzgerald.

About this title

About the Author:

Matthew J. Bruccoli is the Jefferies Professor of English at the University of South Carolina.

From Booklist:

Bruccoli's ongoing fascination with F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway has resulted in his writing and editing some 25 books, including the excellent F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Life in Letters and a popular volume titled Scott and Ernest (1978), which examined the tenuous friendship between these two very different and very talented writers. But this original anatomy of a literary friendship was written under one rather crucial restriction: Hemingway's letters had not yet been published and could not, therefore, be quoted. Now that these and other vital materials have become available, Bruccoli returns to the scene and reassesses their uneasy relationship. His summation is perfect: "Hemingway needed a claque. Fitzgerald needed heroes," statements Bruccoli supports with an engaging analysis of their letters to each other as well as letters to colleagues, especially Maxwell Perkins. Bruccoli does a fine job of exposing the myths the two men created about themselves as armor for their fragile egos, and works hard to identify the truth behind the many now apocryphal tales about these two compelling rivals. Donna Seaman

About this edition

• Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0786700777
• ISBN 13: 9780786700776
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 236