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The Last Tycoon (Penguin Modern Classics)
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Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The Last Tycoon (Penguin Modern Classics) Description
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780141185637
ISBN: 0141185635
Label: Penguin Books
Manufacturer: Penguin Books
Book Pages: 208
Publication Date: 2002-01-31
Publisher: Penguin Books
Studio: Penguin Books
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780141185637
ISBN: 0141185635
Label: Penguin Books
Manufacturer: Penguin Books
Book Pages: 208
Publication Date: 2002-01-31
Publisher: Penguin Books
Studio: Penguin Books
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Review Summary: Interesting But Incomplete.
Review: Fitzgerald is considered to be an important early 20th century American writer. I bought and read Fitzgerald's five major novels ("This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and the Damned, The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night, and The Last Tycoon") plus one book of short stories plus the biography "Some Sort of Epic Grandeur" by Matthew Broccoli.
His first major novel, "This Side of Paradise," along with "Gatsby" and "Tender is the Night" are considered to be great novels, and I enjoyed the reads. The other two have serious flaws. Interestingly, the Bloomsbury Guide does not rate any of the five well known Fitzgerald novels as masterpieces. His best or most complicated work is "Tender is the Night," but it is less well known than "Gatsby" which became a successful film.
Fitzgerald wrote about half a dozen novels and over 100 short stories between approximately 1917 and 1940. The short stories were done largely to make money to support his life style. In later years, he worked on a number of Hollywood film scripts. He died poor in Hollywood in 1940 at an age of just 44, leaving an insurance policy as his main asset.
The present novel was written by Fitzgerald at the end of his short life. It reflects his own life as a screenwriter although here the protagonist is a dynamic producer, not a writer.
This is a very unsatisfactory novel to read because it has one major flaw: Fitzgerald dies at page 150 leaving the reader hanging mid-air, seemingly in the middle of the unfinished story. It is edited by Edmund Wilson and Wilson suggests different endings, but it does not quite work.
It is an interesting read for two reasons. Firstly, other than his over 100 short works, Fitzgerald has just a handful of novels so there is the curiosity factor. Secondly, it is interesting to see how he develops as a writer. Here in "The Last Tycoon" the great prose and romance is largely gone. It seems more or less like any other Hollywood story. He seems to have lost that romantic identification of the earlier work. Perhaps he was tired.
Review Summary: Interesting But Incomplete.
Review: Fitzgerald is considered to be an important early 20th century American writer. I bought and read Fitzgerald's five major novels ("This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and the Damned, The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night, and The Last Tycoon") plus one book of short stories plus the biography "Some Sort of Epic Grandeur" by Matthew Broccoli.
His first major novel, "This Side of Paradise," along with "Gatsby" and "Tender is the Night" are considered to be great novels, and I enjoyed the reads. The other two have serious flaws. Interestingly, the Bloomsbury Guide does not rate any of the five well known Fitzgerald novels as masterpieces. His best or most complicated work is "Tender is the Night," but it is less well known than "Gatsby" which became a successful film.
Fitzgerald wrote about half a dozen novels and over 100 short stories between approximately 1917 and 1940. The short stories were done largely to make money to support his life style. In later years, he worked on a number of Hollywood film scripts. He died poor in Hollywood in 1940 at an age of just 44, leaving an insurance policy as his main asset.
The present novel was written by Fitzgerald at the end of his short life. It reflects his own life as a screenwriter although here the protagonist is a dynamic producer, not a writer.
This is a very unsatisfactory novel to read because it has one major flaw: Fitzgerald dies at page 150 leaving the reader hanging mid-air, seemingly in the middle of the unfinished story. It is edited by Edmund Wilson and Wilson suggests different endings, but it does not quite work.
It is an interesting read for two reasons. Firstly, other than his over 100 short works, Fitzgerald has just a handful of novels so there is the curiosity factor. Secondly, it is interesting to see how he develops as a writer. Here in "The Last Tycoon" the great prose and romance is largely gone. It seems more or less like any other Hollywood story. He seems to have lost that romantic identification of the earlier work. Perhaps he was tired.