On Booze - Hardcover

Smart, sophisticated, and evocative. His writing is a kind of subdued magic, controlled and exquisite, the sort of thing you get from good string quartets. --Raymond Chandler His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly 's wings. --Ernest Hemingway

"First you take a drink," F. Scott Fitzgerald once noted, "then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you." Fitzgerald wrote alcohol into almost every one of his stories. On Booze gathers debutantes and dandies, rowdy jazz musicians, lost children and ragtime riff-raff into a newly compiled collection taken from The Crack-Up, and other works. On Booze portrays "The Jazz Age" as Fitzgerald experienced it: roaring, rambunctious, and lush-with quite a hangover.