Orlean Saturday Night

Orlean, Susan: Saturday Night, NY Alfred A Knopf 1990
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Fitzgerald. This Side of Paradise. Scribner Paper Fiction, 1986
0020199201 1st Scribner classic Collier ed. Rack size. Amazon.com Fitzgerald's first novel, reprinted in the handsome Everyman's Library series of literary classic, uses numerous formal experiments to tell the story of Amory Blaine, as he grows up during the crazy years following the First World War. It also contains a new introduction by Craig Raine that describes critical and popular reception of the book when it came out in 1920. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. From Publishers Weekly Fitzgerald's first novel, about a coterie of Princeton socialites, appears in a 75th anniversary edition. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Library Journal Fitzgerald's semiautobiographical first novel was considered intellectual and daring when it was published in 1920. Amory Blaine grows up in St. Paul in the early years of the century. His mother is an alcoholic whose wealth is sufficient to accommodate her eccentricities. She dotes on her son and encourages him to indulge his whims. His father is conspicuously absent. Amory observes the social graces, as befits someone of his class, but he is only capable of doing so superficially. He is always aware of himself and how he fits into his immediate surroundings. Because of this constant self-analysis, he finds it difficult to relax, to accept people as they are, and to make friends. It is at Princeton that Amory comes into his own, determined to make the best of what he considers from the outset to be the best years of his life. Narrator Dick Hill brings Amory to life with an energetic reading that captures the emotional swings of a spoiled and shallow man who never grows up. Recommended for public library collections.?Nann Blaine Hilyard, Fargo P.L., Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition. From AudioFile F. Scott Fitzgerald's first big hit appealed to the hedonistic youth of The Jazz Age, its immaturity aiding its popularity. Sorely dated, it nonetheless contains vigorous writing and strong characterization. It's a romantic self-portrait of a time in which the hero enters Princeton as a spoiled brat and, after several love affairs, instructive friendships and intellectual awakenings, matures, if that's the right word, into a penniless and sadder but wiser copywriter. Energetic Dick Hill has a good time with this formless novel. In so doing, he chews up a lot of scenery, but the grandiloquent author would probably approve. Indeed, he manages to take the edge off of the "romantic egoists" who so charmed one generation while seeming obnoxious to the current one. Y.R. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Chicago Tribune "Bears the impress of genius....splendid and fascinating." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Amory Blaine in This Side of Paradise "It's essentially cleaner to be corrupt and rich than it is to be innocent and poor." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. -- Chicago Tribune "Bears the impress of genius....splendid and fascinating." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. -- Amory Blaine in This Side of Paradise "It's essentially cleaner to be corrupt and rich than it is to be innocent and poor." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Review Chicago Tribune Bears the impress of genius...splendid and fascinating. --This text refers to the Paperback edition. Book Description This Side of Paradise is the book that established F. Scott Fitzgerald as the prophet and golden boy of the newly dawned Jazz Age. Published in 1920, when he was just twenty-three, the novel catapulted him to instant fame and financial success. The story of Amory Blaine, a privileged, aimless, and self-absorbed Princeton student, This Side of Paradise closely reflects Fitzgerald's own experiences as an undergraduate. Amory Blaine's journey from prep school to college to the First World War is an account of "the lost generation." The young "romantic egotist" symbolizes what Fitzgerald so memorably described as "a new generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken." A pastiche of literary styles, this dazzling chronicle of youth remains bitingly relevant decades later. "This Side of Paradise commits almost every sin that a novel can possibly commit," wrote Edmund Wilson. "But it does not commit the unpardonable sin: it does not fail to live. The whole preposterous farrago is animated with life." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Download Description This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald's romantic and witty first novel, was written when the author was only twenty-three years old. This semiautobiographical story of the handsome, indulged, and idealistic Princeton student Amory Blaine received critical raves and catapulted Fitzgerald to instant fame. Now, readers can enjoy the newly edited, authorized version of this early classic of the Jazz Age, based on Fitzgerald's original manuscript. In this definitive text, This Side of Paradise captures the rhythms and romance of Fitzgerald's youth and offers a poignant portrait of the "Lost Generation." From the Publisher I'm not going to mention how This Side of Paradise is brilliant and perfectly captures "The Lost Generation" in such a way that even a 25-year-old can read this book and somehow feel the tone of that era. Everybody knows all that. Instead, I'd like to just say that one of the reasons I enjoy this book is that it is so damned funny! The self-indulgence and the egoism and the vanity and the arrogance of both Amory and F. Scott Fitzgerald are incredibly amusing. I'm not writing this to belittle or demean the work. I mean this in the best way possible. I love it! It cracks me up! People forget that this book, besides being educational and meaningful, is a really good time and a lot of laughs. S. Gutierrez, Assistant editor --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Inside Flap Copy This Side of Paradise is the book that established F. Scott Fitzgerald as the prophet and golden boy of the newly dawned Jazz Age. Published in 1920, when he was just twenty-three, the novel catapulted him to instant fame and financial success. The story of Amory Blaine, a privileged, aimless, and self-absorbed Princeton student, This Side of Paradise closely reflects Fitzgerald's own experiences as an undergraduate. Amory Blaine's journey from prep school to college to the First World War is an account of "the lost generation." The young "romantic egotist" symbolizes what Fitzgerald so memorably described as "a new generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken." A pastiche of literary styles, this dazzling chronicle of youth remains bitingly relevant decades later. "This Side of Paradise commits almost every sin that a novel can possibly commit," wrote Edmund Wilson. "But it does not commit the unpardonable sin: it does not fail to live. The whole preposterous farrago is animated with life." --This text refers to the Paperback edition. From the Back Cover "I know I'll wake some morning and find that the debutantes have made me famous overnight. I really believe that no one else could have written so searchingly the story of the youth of [my] generation." --F. Scott Fitzgerald --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. About the Author Susan Orlean is the author of The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup, The Orchid Thief, and Saturday Night. She has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1992. She lives in New York City. --This text refers to the Paperback edition. Clean and tight with tanned pages. Owner's name on first free endpaper. Otherwise unmarked no highlighting or underlining..

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Orlean, Susan: SATURDAY NIGHT [First Edition] 1st, New York Knopf 1990
ISBN: 0394573366
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ORLEAN SUSAN: SATURDAY NIGHT,

ISBN : 0394573366. Knopf. 1990. In-8In-8 CarrE. ReliE, Jaquette. Bon Etat. Couv. fraOche. Dos impeccable. IntErieur frais. 258 pages. Jaquette lEgErement abOmEe. Ex-Libris de Bill Barnes. Novel.

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