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All of the Belles: The Montgomery Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald

All of the Belles: The Montgomery Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kirk CurnuttPublish date:3/3/2020Pages:112
Languages:EnglishPublisher:NewSouth BooksISBN-13:9781588384232ISBN-10:1588384233UPC:9781588384232Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Short Stories (single author), LiterarySize:8.10 x 5.70 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SCPV1JTZTJ

During his Roaring Twenties heyday, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote three stories about the belles of Tarleton, Georgia, a setting readers recognized as a thinly veiled version of his wife Zelda Sayre's hometown of Montgomery, Alabama. In different ways, the heroines of these tales--Sally Carol Happer in "The Ice Palace," Nancy Lamar in "The Jelly-Bean," and Allie Calhoun in "The Last of the Belles"--rebel against Southern expectations of women, revel in the newfound freedoms young people enjoyed at the outset of the modern age, and ultimately discover that home is far harder to run away from than they ever expected.

Remarkably, although these minor masterpieces have long been regarded as among the very best of the 160-plus short stories Fitzgerald published during his short life, the stories have never (until now) been published as a trio. Gathered here to commemorate the centennial of both Scott and Zelda's 1920 marriage and the beginning of the Jazz Age they symbolize, All of the Belles captures all the winsome qualities readers love about F. Scott Fitzgerald's writing: the keen observation of manners, the comic insights, the lyricism, and the poignant, powerful sense of loss.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:NewSouth BooksISBN-13:9781588384232ISBN-10:1588384233UPC:9781588384232Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Short Stories (single author), LiterarySize:8.10 x 5.70 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SCPV1JTZTJ
Fitzgerald, F. Scott: - Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896, F. Scott Fitzgerald first came to Alabama in the summer of 1918 as an Army lieutenant stationed at Camp Sheridan while training for the Great War. According to legend, he met Montgomery belle Zelda Sayre at a country-club dance. The pair married on April 3, 1920, and, thanks to the success of Fitzgerald's debut novel--published eight days before the wedding--instantly became symbols of the Roaring Twenties. Over the next two decades, Fitzgerald published three more novels--including his masterpiece, The Great Gatsby--and 160-plus short stories. He died in 1940, having fallen out of public favor. Within a decade, however, readers rediscovered his brilliance and he continues to be celebrated as one of America's greatest authors today.Curnutt, Kirk: - Kirk Curnutt is executive director of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Society and serves as managing editor of The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review. He is professor and chair of English at Troy University. His office in downtown Montgomery looks out toward Pleasant Avenue, where Zelda Fitzgerald was raised. Curnutt is the author of The Cambridge Introduction to F. Scott Fitzgerald, among other books, and the editor of The Oxford Historical Guide to F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Publisher: NewSouth Books

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