A Hollywood hack who has fallen on hard times since the end of the Silent Era, Pat Hobby spends his time hanging out in the studio lot attempting to devise schemes - such as pressing his secretary for blackmail material against a studio executive - to get more work and earn on-screen credits. Oblivious to his own shortcomings and filled with feelings of self-importance, he embarks on a course towards ever-increasing humiliation, suffering setbacks on both the professional and romantic fronts.
A vivid account of Hollywood and its politics and hierarchies, these stories - which draw from Fitzgerald's own travails as a screenwriter - were first printed in Esquire, although they were written with a view to being published as a cohesive volume.
By:
Scott F. Fitzgerald
Imprint: Alma Edizioni
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 198mm,
Width: 128mm,
Weight: 198g
ISBN: 9781847493859
ISBN 10: 1847493858
Series: The F. Scott Fitzgerald Collection
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 01 December 2014
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Contains: Pat Hobby s Christmas Wish, A Man in the Way, Boil Some Water Lots of It, Teamed with Genius, Pat Hobby and Orson Welles, Pat Hobby s Secret, Pat Hobby, Putative Father, The Homes of the Stars, Pat Hobby Does His Bit, Pat Hobby s Preview, No Harm Trying, A Patriotic Short, On the Trail of Pat Hobby, Fun in an Artist s Studio, Two Old-Timers, Mightier than the Sword, Pat Hobby s College Days.
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 Pat Hobby Stories
He was better than he knew, for in fact and in the literary sense he invented a generation. * The New York Times *
