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This Side of Paradise: Introduction by Craig Raine

This Side of Paradise: Introduction by Craig Raine

Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Raine, Craig

Hardcover

Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics

Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

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ISBN10: 0679447237
ISBN13: 9780679447238
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Published: Jul 15 1996
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.99
Height: 1.02 Width: 5.35 Depth: 8.32
Language: English

F. Scott Fitzgerald's extraordinary career as a novelist ended abruptly and unhappily, but it began with one of the most brilliant first novels in the history of American literature. Published when its author was just twenty-three, This Side of Paradise is about the education of a youth, and to this universal story Fitzgerald brought the promise of everything that was new in the vigorous, restless America during the years following World War I. Amory Blaine-egoistic, versatile, callow, and imaginative-inhabits a book that is interwoven with songs, poems, playscripts, and questions and answers. His growth from self-absorption to sexual awareness and personhood is described by means of a continuous improvisatory energy and delight. Far from being distracting, Fitzgerald's formal inventiveness and verve only heighten our sense that the world being described is our own modern world. A profound coherence informs This Side of Paradise-a coherence born of its author's uncanny ability to revel in the fragmented surfaces of human life while exploring and comprehending its serene depths.

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