Book cover for On Booze by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2011 Released
144 Pages
1-2 Hours
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New DirectionsISBN 9780811219334

 F. Scott Fitzgerald's delicious, heady, vintage collection On Booze–now in a fantastic gift edition, as easy to pick up as a cocktail

“First you take a drink,” F. Scott Fitzgerald once noted, “then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.” Fitzgerald wrote alcohol into almost every one of his stories. On Booze gathers debutantes and dandies, rowdy jazz musicians, lost children and ragtime riff-raff into an intoxicating collection taken from The Crack-up, The Jazz Age, and other works. On Booze portrays Fitzgerald's wild era in unforgettable aphorisms, quips, and other short selections of writings: roaring, rambunctious, and lush—with quite a hangover.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age - a term he popularised in his short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age. His first novel, This Side of Paradise, was published in 1920 and was a tremendous critical and commercial success. Fitzgerald followed with The Beautiful and the Damned, The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night. He was working on The Last Tycoon when he died, in Hollywood, in 1940.

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