A young Harvard graduate with bright prospects, Bill Frothington is invited on board a steamer hosting a high-school dance, where he meets and falls in love with the seventeen-year-old Mae. As the match is not considered socially advantageous enough, Bill moves on, marries and has a career, but he remains painfully nostalgic for that episode on the river.
A poignant tale which touches on the themes of yearning and lost youth that are central to many of Fitzgerald’s novels and stories, ‘The Love Boat’ is here presented with other lesser-known pieces which he wrote in the 1920s and explore the many facets of his creative talents.
By:
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Imprint: Alma Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 198mm,
Width: 128mm,
Weight: 267g
ISBN: 9781847494146
ISBN 10: 1847494145
Series: The F. Scott Fitzgerald Collection
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 29 July 2015
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Contains: The Smilers, Myra Meets His Family, Two for a Cent, Dice, Brassknuckles and Guitar, Diamond Dick and the First Law of Woman, The Third Casket, The Unspeakable Egg, John Jackson's Arcady, The Pusher-in-the-Face, One of My Oldest Friends, Not in the Guidebook, Presumption, The Adolescent Marriage, Your Way and Mine, The Love Boat.
Considered one of the finest American writers of the twentieth century, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940) was the author of various novels and short stories chronicling life in the US during the Roaring Twenties.
Reviews for The Love Boat and Other Stories
He was better than he knew, for in fact and in the literary sense he invented a generation. * The New York Times *
