Hemingway vs. Fitzgerald: The Rise and Fall of a Literary Friendship

Donaldson, Scott

ISBN 10: 1585671266 / ISBN 13: 9781585671267

Published by Overlook Press, 2001

About this Item

Very Good. 2001 Overlook Press. SIGNED by author on title page, with a personal inscription. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Trade paperback. Black and white plates. 352 pages. Binding tight. Covers have very light edge and surface wear. Spine NOT creased. Appears to be unread. Pages clean and unmarked. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Hemingway vs. Fitzgerald: The Rise and Fall of a Literary Friendship
• Publisher: Overlook Press
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1585671266
• ISBN 13: 9781585671267
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: signed by author
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature
  • Signed
  • Biography

About this title

Synopsis

Paris in the 20s: The era of literary expatriates Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald continues to burn in the imagination as a time of unparalleled glamour and romance. Here, in Hemingway vs. Fitzgerald, prize-winning biographer Scott Donaldson goes beyond the mythologyzing to create a true, multi-faceted narrative of a great friendship fueled by admiration, jealousy, and liquor-a heady mixture of literary scholarship, history, and gossip.

The friendship started in Paris and the French Riviera where the more famous Fitzgerald introduced novice writer Hemingway to Gertrude Stein and socialites Gerald and Sara Murphy. As the years progressed, the friendship became as mercurial and complex as the writers themselves. With a dazzling cast of characters that includes legendary Scribner's editor Maxwell Perkins, Zelda Fitzgerald and Hadley Hemingway, and writers Morley Callaghan and Edmund Wilson, Scott Donaldson recounts the glory and pain the great literary friendship of our time.

About the Author

Scott Donaldson is the author of By Force of Will: The Life and Art of Ernest Hemingway and Fool for Love: F. Scott Fitzgerald, and of literary biographies of John Cheever, Archibald MacLeish (Ambassador Book Award, 1994), and Winfield Townley Scott. He is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Hemingway. He divides his time between Minneapolis, MN, and Scotsdale, AZ.