The Crack-Up

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811219712
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356

Book Description
A self-portrait of a great writer 's rise and fall, intensely personal and etched with Fitzgerald's signature blend of romance and realism. The Crack-Up tells the story of Fitzgerald's sudden descent at the age of thirty-nine from glamorous success to empty despair, and his determined recovery. Compiled and edited by Edmund Wilson shortly after F. Scott Fitzgerald's death, this revealing collection of his essays—as well as letters to and from Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, T.S. Eliot, John Dos Passos—tells of a man with charm and talent to burn, whose gaiety and genius made him a living symbol of the Jazz Age, and whose recklessness brought him grief and loss. "Fitzgerald's physical and spiritual exhaustion is described brilliantly," noted The New York Review of Books: "the essays are amazing for the candor."

The Crack-up

Author: Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 9780140180602
Category : Hobby, Pat (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 154

Book Description

On Booze

Author: Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811219266
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description
A collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald's best drinking stories makes this the most intoxicating New Directions Pearl yet!

A Crack-up at the Race Riots

Author: Harmony Korine
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781937112103
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This reprinting of Korine's first novel presents fragments of a portrait in multimedia: print, photographs, drawings, news clippings, handwriting, a poem, attempted diagrams, clip art; but mostly text, including hard-luck stories, off-and-on-colour jokes, script-scraps, found letters, free rhymes, drug flashbacks and other scenes, exploring the world of show-biz with feet set lightly in the black humours of the real ol' world. This excretion of the danglers of public life would make William Burroughs sigh and turn the page, at least.

Crack-Up Comics Collection: An AFK Book (Bendy)

Author: Vannotes
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 133867482X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164

Book Description
This collection of vintage 1930s-1940s Bendy comic strips is a must-have for those wanting to peek into the silly, scary world of Bendy and his friends! For those dying to know more about the simple, darkly funny cartoons produced at Joey Drew Studios, look no further than this illustrated collection of comics based on the exploits of Bendy, Boris the Wolf, Alice Angel, and all their friends! This collection of vintage comic strip adaptations brings to life the best of the many cartoon features produced by Joey Drew Studios. Fans of all ages won't want to miss this never-before-published romp that brings to life the world of Bendy!

A Short Autobiography

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439199078
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
A self-portrait of a great writer. A Short Autobiography charts Fitzgerald's progression from exuberant and cocky with "What I think and Feel at 25", to mature and reflective with "One Hundred False Starts" and "The Death of My Father." Compiled and edited by Professor James West, this revealing collection of personal essays and articles reveals the beloved author in his own words.

Fitzgerald: My Lost City

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521402392
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 378

Book Description
"This volume of the Cambridge Fitzgerald Edition includes the original nine stories selected by Fitzgerald for All the Sad Young Men, together with eleven additional stories, published between 1925 and 1928, which were not collected by Fitzgerald during his lifetime." "This edition of All the Sad Young Men is the first of the short-fiction collections in the Cambridge edition to be based on extensive surviving manuscripts and typescripts. The volume contains a scholarly introduction, historical notes, a textual apparatus, illustrations, and appendixes."--BOOK JACKET.

The Cook Up

Author: D. Watkins
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 1455588644
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 254

Book Description
Reminiscent of the classic Random Family and The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, but told by the man who lived it, The Cook Up is a riveting look inside the Baltimore drug trade portrayed in The Wire and an incredible story of redemption. The smartest kid on his block in East Baltimore, D. was certain he would escape the life of drugs, decadence, and violence that had surrounded him since birth. But when his brother Devin is shot-only days after D. receives notice that he's been accepted into Georgetown University-the plans for his life are exploded, and he takes up the mantel of his brother's crack empire. D. succeeds in cultivating the family business, but when he meets a woman unlike any he's known before, his priorities are once more put into question. Equally terrifying and hilarious, inspiring and heartbreaking, D.'s story offers a rare glimpse into the mentality of a person who has escaped many hells.

A Crack in the Sea

Author: H. M. Bouwman
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0399545190
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370

Book Description
"Pip, a young boy who can speak to fish, and his sister Kinchen set off on a great adventure, joined by twins with magical powers, refugees fleeing post-war Vietnam, and some helpful sea monsters"--

Echoes of the Jazz Age

Author: F Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781672365505
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 34

Book Description
The word jazz in its progress toward respectability has meant first meal, then dancing, then music. It is associated with a state of nervous stimulation, not unlike that of big cities on the edge of a war zone.