This Side of Paradise

This Side of ParadiseThese sumptuous new hardback editions mark the 70th anniversary of Fitzgerald's death. Increasingly disillusioned by the rejection slips that studded the walls of his room and his on off engagement to Zelda Sayre, Fitzgerald began his third revision of the novel that was to become This Side of Paradise. The story of a young man's painful sexual and intellectual awakening that echoes Fitzgerald's own career, it is also a portrait of the lost generation

These sumptuous new hardback editions mark the 70th anniversary of Fitzgerald's death. Increasingly disillusioned by the rejection slips that studded the walls of his room and his on/off engagement to Zelda Sayre, Fitzgerald began his third revision of the novel that was to become This Side of Paradise. The story of a young man's painful sexual and intellectual awakening that echoes Fitzgerald's own career, it is also a portrait of the lost generation that followed straight on from the First World War, 'grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken' and wanting money and success more than anything else.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 10/25/2011
ISBN: 9780141194097
Pages: 267
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.41w x 1.29d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 106148 / This Side of Paradise
Reading Level: 7.2 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 14