The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories
Language: English
20th century 1896-1940 American Short Story Collections Criticism F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fiction Fitzgerald General Literary Literature - Classics Nineteen twenties Short Stories Short Stories (Single Author) Social Life and Customs United States United States - Social life and customs - 20th century classics
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: Aug 26, 2008
Description:
EDITORIAL REVIEW: IN THE TITLE STORY, a baby born in 1860 begins life as an old man and proceeds to age backward. F. Scott Fizgerald 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. 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.