num_pages: 86
description: A collection of F. Scott Fitzgeralds best drinking stories makes this the most intoxicating New Directions Pearl yet! 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.
language: English
title: On Booze
publisher: New Directions