ISBN: 9798199908566 - the longest minute: the end of the jazz age (echoes of the lost generation, band 7) (1 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - One boxing round. Two literary titans. One devastating punch that shattered the Jazz Age forever.Paris, 1929. The city hums with jazz, cheap gin, and the brilliant, destructive egos of the Lost Generation. While Ernest Hemingway rules the expatriate elite with an iron-clad 'tough guy' persona, F. Scott Fitzgerald is drowning in debt and the tragic, manic spiral of his wife, Zelda.Into this volatile playground steps Morley Callaghan, a sharp young Canadian writer who refuses to worship at Hemingway's feet-and happens to be a highly trained boxer. What begins as mentorship at the American Club gym quickly devolves into a toxic psychological war. Hemingway is desperate to assert his physical dominance, while a resentful Fitzgerald watches from the sidelines, clutching the official stopwatch.On a suffocating, stormy afternoon, the tension finally snaps during a routine sparring match. As gloves fly and blood spills, the three-minute bell never rings, trapping two titans in a fourth minute that will permanently strip away the myths they need to survive. Will their brotherhood survive the fallout, or will their fragile egos destroy them before the impending Wall Street crash finishes the job Get your copy today! Step into the ring and experience the tragic final hours of the Jazz Age.…