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This Side of Paradise

F. Scott Fitzgerald Susan Orlean

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English
Modern Library Inc
13 November 2001
This Side of Paradise is the book that established F. Scott Fitzgerald as the prophet and golden boy of the newly dawned Jazz Age.

Published in 1920, when he was just twenty-three, the novel catapulted him to instant fame and financial success.

The story of Amory Blaine, a privileged, aimless, and self-absorbed Princeton student, This Side of Paradise closely reflects Fitzgerald's own experiences as an undergraduate.

Amory Blaine's journey from prep school to college to the First World War is an account of ""the lost generation.""

The young ""romantic egotist"" symbolizes what Fitzgerald so memorably described as ""a new generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken.""

A pastiche of literary styles, this dazzling chronicle of youth remains bitingly relevant decades later.

""This Side of Paradise commits almost every sin that a novel can possibly commit,"" wrote Edmund Wilson.

""But it does not commit the unpardonable sin-

it does not fail to live.

The whole preposterous farrago is animated with life.""
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Imprint:   Modern Library Inc
Country of Publication:   United States
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Height: 203mm,  Width: 131mm,  Spine: 19mm
Weight:   259g
ISBN:   9780375758867
ISBN 10:   0375758860
Series:   Modern Library Classics
Pages:   352
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Inactive

Susan Orlean is the author of The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup, The Orchid Thief, and Saturday Night. She has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1992. She lives in New York City.

Reviews for This Side of Paradise

The book that established Fitzgerald's reputation as the chronicler of a doomed generation of young Americans between the wars. Amory Blaine resolves to rebel against his staid, mid-western upbringing and to gain a a patina of east coast sophistication: in his quest for sexual and intellectual enlightenment he embarks on a series of relationships through which he learns that money cannot buy love, before he finds himself cast adrift in the real world. (Kirkus UK)


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