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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
342 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Description
"The "Fresh Air" book critic investigates the enduring power of The Great Gatsby -- "The Great American Novel we all think we've read, but really haven't." Conceived nearly a century ago by a man who died believing himself a failure, it's now a revered classic and a rite of passage in the reading lives of millions. But how well do we really know The Great Gatsby? As Maureen Corrigan, Gatsby lover extraordinaire, points out, while Fitzgerald's masterpiece...
Publisher
distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2013.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (49 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Produced in celebration of the 75th Anniversary of the publication of The Great Gatsby, this fascinating documentary explores the turbulent life and dark creative spirit of its writer, F. Scott Fitzgerald. It examines his disappointing college days at Princeton, his disastrous marriage to Zelda, his difficult relationship with Hemingway, and his tendency to sell out and compromise his talent for cash, which led to his turbulent last days in Hollywood....
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
397 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
Pigeonholed in popular memory as a Jazz Age epicurean, a playboy, and an emblem of the Lost Generation, F. Scott Fitzgerald was at heart a moralist struck by the nation's shifting mood and manners after World War I. In Paradise Lost, David Brown contends that Fitzgerald's deepest allegiances were to a fading antebellum world he associated with his father's Chesapeake Bay roots. Yet as a midwesterner, an Irish Catholic, and a perpetually in-debt author,...
Author
Series
Sam Blackman mysteries volume 2
Formats
Description
"Former Chief Warrant Officer Sam Blackman lost a leg in Iraq and emerged from the V.A. hospital in Asheville, NC, as a bitter civilian without a job or a future. But when he solved a series of local murders, Sam not only brought the guilty to justice but found meaning for his life. Now he and his partner, Nakayla Robertson, are opening a detective agency. They have high hopes that the thriving mountain region will provide a steady stream of cases....
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
193 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Ten-year-old Alice Atherton is sent by her father to spend the summer with his dear friends the Murphys who live with their three children and pet monkey in the French Riviera. There, Alice will meet and learn from some of the most extraordinary luminaries of the time. She visits a junk yard with Pablo Picasso looking for objects to make into art, performs a dance inspired by celestial bodies with the renowned Ballet Russes, and imagines magical adventures...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"A "rich, sometimes heartbreaking" (Dennis Lehane) novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald's last years in Hollywood In 1937, F. Scott Fitzgerald was a troubled, uncertain man whose literary success was long over. In poor health, with his wife consigned to a mental asylum and his finances in ruins, he struggled to make a new start as a screenwriter in Hollywood. By December 1940, he would be dead of a heart attack. Those last three years of Fitzgerald's life,...
10) Call me Zelda
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
326 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
Fighting to forge an identity independent of her famous husband, Zelda Fitzgerald, committed to a Baltimore psychiatric hospital in 1932, finds a friend in nurse Anne Howard, who, drawn into the Fitzgeralds' tumultuous lives, questions who the true genius is.
11) The great Gatsby
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray discs (142 min.) : Blu-ray, sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On 1920s Long Island, a dashing enigmatic millionaire becomes obsessed with an elusive, spoiled young woman.
Series
Criterion collection volume 476
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (165 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Daisy Fuller Williams is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital the day that Hurricane Katrina hits. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud from the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin's diary recounts his entire extraordinary life. The unusual aspect of his life is that he is ages backwards, being born an old man. He is diagnosed with several aged diseases at birth and thus...
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