April 2004 Book
Selection:
The Last Tycoon
aka The Love of the Last Tycoon
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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From the publisher:
"The Love the Last Tycoon," edited by the preeminent Fitzgerald scholar Matthew J. Bruccoli, is a restoration of the author's phrases, words, and images that were excised from the 1940 edition, giving new luster to an unfinished literary masterpiece. It is the story of the young Hollywood mogul Monroe Stahr, who was inspired by the life of boy-genius Irving Thalberg, and is an exposé of the studio system in its heyday.
About the author:
F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896,
attended Princeton University, and published his first novel,
"This Side of Paradise," in 1920. That same year he married
Zelda Sayre, and the couple divided their time between New York,
Paris, and the Riviera, becoming a part of the American expatriate
circle that included Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, and John
Dos Passos. Fitzgerald was a major new literary voice, and his
masterpieces include "The Beautiful and Damned," "The Great
Gatsby," and "Tender Is the Night." He died of a heart attack
in 1940 at the age of 44, while working on "The Love of the
Last Tycoon."
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