Publish Date |
April 10, 2018 |
Category |
Fiction / Short Stories Fiction / Classics |
Price |
$25.00 |
ISBN: 9781501144356
Format: Paperback
Pages: 384
Publisher: Scribner
Published: April 10, 2018
"A treasure trove for Fitzgerald enthusiasts, scholars, and aspiring writers… an invaluable glimpse into a brilliant but struggling writer's process.""His best writing is grounded in a specific time and place, and then propelled by his deep emotional attachment to the subject matter... shows curious readers how the author tried to mine an idea... editor Anne Margaret Daniel’s individual story introductions are highly informative, and her extensive annotations are illuminating." "No English-language author ever wrote a more musical sentence than Fitzgerald, a stunning accomplishment considering his work’s diamond-like clarity... few can doubt the greatness of what he did write in his hectic, too-short life.""I'd Die for You stands apart by shining a light on Fitzgerald's darker, more autobiographical side.. a necessary and welcome addition to his oeuvre….Its value derives largely from the different note struck by these stories, the ways in which they diverge from the work that Fitzgerald is often known for. The collection demonstrates his tremendous range, macabre wit, and above all, his risk-taking, most notably in the emotional core of the stories and the unflinching reality from which they derive.”“A treasure trove of tales too dark for the magazines of the 1930s. Lucky us.”"How pleasurable to be borne back ceaselessly into the past... The material in this collection trades in mature topics... Fitzgerald’s precision and fineness, even at the depth of his powers, exceeds contemporary writers by miles."“Fitzgerald’s supreme luck with editors who ‘got’ him is continued by Anne Margaret Daniel in this collection of previously unpublished and uncollected Fitzgerald stories, notably from the ‘30’s. In her ministrations to the stories themselves and for readers, contextualizing what hadn’t been seen before is about as good as it gets.”"For F. Scott Fitzgerald fans wanting a thrill that readers of his time were denied... Part of the charm of this anthology is that the stories appear without the censorship to which they might have been subjected.""Many of the stories remained unpublished because Fitzgerald reached a point in his career when he refused to allow his work to be edited by the magazines that might have bought them. Now, here they are — a welcomed addition to the Fitzgerald canon."