Auf ein Miniaturbild klicken, um zu Google Books zu gelangen.
Lädt ... F. Scott Fitzgerald. Das Genie der wilden zwanziger Jahre. (1962)von Andrew Turnbull
Keine Lädt ...
Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
Prestigeträchtige AuswahlenBemerkenswerte Listen
Revealing and fascinating biography of one of America's greatest writers. Scott Fitzgerald follows the life of one of America's most enduring authors, from his early years in St Paul and at Princeton to New York in the twenties, the French Riviera, Baltimore, and finally Hollywood. Andrew Turnbull tells the story behind F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise, revised and finally published when he was twenty-four, making him instantly famous, and his tender love affair with Zelda Sayre, from their glittering early life to the years Zelda spent in and out of sanatoriums. A literary generation, too, comes alive, including Ernest Hemingway, Edmund Wilson and Edith Wharton. Fitzgerald lived on Turnbull's family estate in Baltimore in the early 1930s and there befriended young Andrew, then aged eleven. Turnbull's personal relationship with Fitzgerald and the hundreds of interviews with those who knew him elegantly capture the dramatic, tragic story of F. Scott and the glow and pathos of his flamboyant life. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
Aktuelle DiskussionenKeineBeliebte Umschlagbilder
Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)928.1History and Geography Biography, genealogy, insignia People in literature, history, biography, genealogy American writersKlassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
Bist das du?Werde ein LibraryThing-Autor. |
Turnbull has a small personal connection due to the fact that in 1932-33 Fitzgerald and his daughter Scottie stayed at a rented house on the La Paix estate of Turnbull's parents near Baltimore, Maryland where Zelda Fitzgerald was undergoing treatment for her recurring mental health issues. This adds the benefit of some warm-hearted anecdotes of the games that Fitzgerald organized for Scottie and the 3 Turnbull children. Fitzgerald also seems to have taken 11-year old Andrew under a fatherly wing taking him to football games and introducing him to boxing.
Any Fitzgerald biography will be read with great deal of sadness but it is the warm family moments like those in the company of the Turnbulls and the stories of the final possible turnaround under Sheilah Graham's care in Hollywood that still help to lift the spirit.
Stray Observations
- Andrew Turnbull was also the editor of the first collection of letters: The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald from 1963. ( )