This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s romantic and witty first novel, was written when the author was only twenty-three years old. This semiautobiographical story of the handsome, indulged, and idealistic Princeton student Amory Blaine received critical raves and catapulted Fitzgerald to instant fame. Now, readers can enjoy the newly edited, authorized version of this early classic of the … classic of the Jazz Age, based on Fitzgerald’s original manuscript. In this definitive text, This Side of Paradise captures the rhythms and romance of Fitzgerald’s youth and offers a poignant portrait of the “Lost Generation.”
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So how is it that this novel, despite it’s shortcomings, was still able to be successful? Ask any New York agent to represent your literary novel with a male protagonist and he’ll tell you: “Literary novel’s with a male protagonist are hard sells.” And they are. Think about it: How many literary novels with male protagonists have you enjoyed in …
read this book years ago along with everything by this author & his wife including several biographies.
Although I am a lifelong reader, I’m not certain I would have become a writer if I hadn’t smuggled a copy of THIS SIDE OF PARADISE out my parent’s book case at age 12. Swept away by the capture of the era, the contradictions and conflict, and, yes, resolution. I was hooked. The feel of the books have stayed with my for decades. This remains my …