Fitzgerald, F. Scott

New York. 1996. January 1996. Signet/New American Library. 1st Signet Classic Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0451526104. Introduction By Jay Parini. 287 pages. paperback. CE2610. Cover: Archive Photos. keywords: Signet Classic America Literature Paperback 20th Century. FROM THE PUBLISHER - THIS SIDE OF PARADISE is the accomplished and heartbreaking first novel that catapulted F. Scott Fitzgerald to literary fame at the age of twenty - three. Considered scandalous (and brilliant) when it was published in 1920, it describes the intellectual, spiritual, and sexual education of young Amory Blaine in the tumultuous America of the early l9OOs. Highly sophisticated yet hopelessly romantic, Amory flounders from prep school to Princeton to glittering Jazz Age New York, confident that he is destined for greatness but unsure how to go about it. Fitzgerald's razor - sharp re - creation of a defiant, disillusioned generation 'grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken' makes This Side of Paradise a timeless autobiographical novel of youth and alienation. It moves from tenderness to cynicism to hope with the grace and power that stamp Fitzgerald as one of the greatest of American writers. inventory #31461 ISBN: 0451526104.