Publication

1999 - Overlook Press, Woodstock, NY, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

88,000 words, Guess

Page Count

352 pages

Identifiers

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  • LibraryThing145220

Classifications

  • LCCPS3515.E37 Z58574 1999
  • LCCPS3515.E37Z58574

Alternate Titles

  • Hemingway versus Fitzgerald

Description

Paris in the 20s: The era of literary expatriates Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald continues to burn in the imagination as a time of unparalleled glamour and romance. Here, in Hemingway vs. Fitzgerald, prize-winning biographer Scott Donaldson goes beyond the mythologyzing to create a true, multi-faceted narrative of a great friendship fueled by admiration, jealousy, and liquor-a heady mixture of literary scholarship, history, and gossip. The friendship started in Paris and the French Riviera where the more famous Fitzgerald introduced novice writer Hemingway to Gertrude Stein and socialites Gerald and Sara Murphy. As the years progressed, the friendship became as mercurial and complex as the writers themselves. With a dazzling cast of characters that includes legendary Scribner's editor Maxwell Perkins, Zelda Fitzgerald and Hadley Hemingway, and writers Morley Callaghan and Edmund Wilson, Scott Donaldson recounts the glory and pain the great literary friendship of our time. - Back cover.

Description

Profiles the friendship between F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, discussing how the two met, why they were so competitive, and how their friendship was affected by their writing.

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  • Hemingway vs. Fitzgerald: the rise and fall of a literary friendshipOverlook Press1999-01-01

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