Beautiful And Damned; Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott; Hardcover

Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Scribner Classics; Hardcover
Published: February 1999
Scribner Book Company
ISBN: 0684852764

Anthony Patch considers himself a man of the world: sophisticated, creative, destined for great things. Fueled by alcohol and recklessness, he and his beautiful wife, Gloria, thrive on the decadent 1920s New York nightlife. As they await a substantial inheritance from Anthony's grandfather, they squander their money and waste their talents, descending into moral and financial bankruptcy.The Beautiful and Damned, written during the early years of Fitzgerald's marriage to Zelda, contains many revealing autobiographical elements. The work that signaled Fitzgerald's maturity as a storyteller and novelist, this classic endures as a devastating portrait of the excesses of the Jazz Age.