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Author: Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Binding method: hardcover, with protective cover
Publication: 2017
Publisher: Jelenkor Publishing
Page number: 628
Scott Fitzgerald's "lost" stories, i.e. mostly left in a desk drawer, instead of the author's usual bright light, present the pulsating, lively world of America and Hollywood at the beginning of the twentieth century in half-shadow. Just like in his novels, in these short stories Fitzgerald is able to outline entire life stories with magical elegance, with a few sentences or snappy dialogues suitable for a film: drug-addicted movie stars, fallen girls, former bankers who went crazy in the stock market crash, scandals...