The lost decade
Subtitle: short stories from Esquire, 1936-1941
By: F. Scott Fitzgerald ; edited by James L.W. West, III.
Contributors: West, James L. W.
Series: The Cambridge edition of the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; Brand: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780521885300
Description: "This volume of the Cambridge Edition includes thirteen short stories published by Fitzgerald in Esquire, together with the entire Pat Hobby Series - seventeen stories about an aging screenwriter scrambling to make a living in Hollywood during the 1930s. One other story - "Dearly Beloved," submitted to Esquire but not published there - is included as an appendix. The volume provides restored, accurate texts based on Fitzgerald's surviving manuscripts, typescripts, and proofs. A textual apparatus records editorial decisions; explanatory notes identify people, places, literary works, historical events, and references to Hollywood actors, directors, and films. The volume also includes selected facsimiles of Fitzgerald's manuscripts and typescripts for the Esquire writings."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Acts of music (May 1936); title: The ants at Princeton (June 1936); title: "I didn't get over" (October 1936); title: An alcoholic case (February 1937); title: The long way out (September 1937); title: The guest in room nineteen (October 1937); title: In the holidays (December 1937); title: Financing Finnegan (January 1938); title: Design in plaster (November 1939); title: The lost decade (December 1939); title: On an ocean wave (February 1941); title: The woman from "21" (June 1941); title: Hours between planes (July 1941); title: Pat Hobby's Christmas wish (January 1940); title: A man in the way (February 1940); title: "Boil some water, lots of it" (March 1940); title: Teamed with genius (April 1940); title: Pat Hobby and Orson Welles (May 1940); title: Pat Hobby's secret (June 1940); title: Pat Hobby, putative father (July 1940); title: The homes of the stars (August 1940); title: Pat Hobby does his bit (September 1940); title: Pat Hobby's preview (October 1940); title: No harm trying (November 1940); title: A patriotic short (December 1940); title: On the trail of Pat Hobby (January 1941); title: Fun in an artist's studio (February 1941); title: Old-timers (March 1941); title: Mightier than the sword (April 1941); title: Pat Hobby's college days (May 1941) .