On Booze: 0 (New Directions Pearls) - Softcover

Smart, sophisticated, and evocative.

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 never before published by New Directions. On Booze portrays “The Jazz Age” as Fitzgerald experienced it: roaring, rambunctious, and lush — with quite a hangover.