The curious case of Benjamin Button and other jazz age stories / F. Scott Fitzgerald ; edited with an introduction and explanatory notes by Patrick O'Donnell

By: Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940Contributor(s): O'Donnell, PatrickMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Penguin classicsPublication details: New York : Penguin Books, 2008Description: 427 p. ; 19 cmISBN: 9780143105497; 0143105493Uniform titles: Jazz age stories Subject(s): Nineteen twenties -- Fiction | United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- FictionLOC classification: PS3511.I9 | A6 2008
Contents:
The offshore pirate -- The ice palace -- Head and shoulders -- The cut-glass bowl -- Bernice bobs her hair -- Benediction -- Dalyrimple goes wrong -- The four fists -- The jelly-bean -- The camel's back -- May Day -- Porcelain and pink -- The diamond as big as the Ritz -- The curious case of Benjamin Button -- Tarquin of Cheapside -- "O Russet witch!" -- The lees of happiness -- Mr. Icky -- Jemina
Summary: "In the title story - the inspiration for the major motion picture The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett - a baby born in 1860 begins life as an old man and proceeds to age backward. F. Scott Fitzgerald hinted at this kind of inversion when he called his era "a generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken." Perhaps nowhere in American fiction has this "Lost Generation" been more vividly preserved than in Fitzgerald's short fiction." "Gathered here are all of the stories in Fitzgerald's first two collections, including "The Ice Palace," "Bernice Bobs Her Hair," and "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz." Spanning the early twentieth-century American landscape, this original collection captures, with Fitzgerald's signature blend of enchantment and disillusionment, America during the Jazz Age." --Book Jacket
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Previously published as Jazz age stories

The offshore pirate -- The ice palace -- Head and shoulders -- The cut-glass bowl -- Bernice bobs her hair -- Benediction -- Dalyrimple goes wrong -- The four fists -- The jelly-bean -- The camel's back -- May Day -- Porcelain and pink -- The diamond as big as the Ritz -- The curious case of Benjamin Button -- Tarquin of Cheapside -- "O Russet witch!" -- The lees of happiness -- Mr. Icky -- Jemina

"In the title story - the inspiration for the major motion picture The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett - a baby born in 1860 begins life as an old man and proceeds to age backward. F. Scott Fitzgerald hinted at this kind of inversion when he called his era "a generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken." Perhaps nowhere in American fiction has this "Lost Generation" been more vividly preserved than in Fitzgerald's short fiction." "Gathered here are all of the stories in Fitzgerald's first two collections, including "The Ice Palace," "Bernice Bobs Her Hair," and "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz." Spanning the early twentieth-century American landscape, this original collection captures, with Fitzgerald's signature blend of enchantment and disillusionment, America during the Jazz Age." --Book Jacket

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