F. Scott Fitzgerald

A collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald's best drinking stories makes this the most intoxicating New Directions Pearl yet!

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Christina Hufford

I enjoyed it on the basis that it was a collection of Fitzgerald's writings, but it did kind of feel like the editors did a Find-Replace of his work for anything that mentioned the words "drink" "gin" "drunk" "booze" etc., and copy-pasted them together to make a book. The back said it was his thoughts and experiences with drinking, and yet some stories would be 5, 10 pages and only mention the narrator sipping a drink at some point. So it was a little random in that respect. I think "The Crack-Up" articles were my favorites, though "The Lost City" was supremely evocative--in that I kind of felt like a depressed, listless piece of nothing while reading it. I DON'T KNOW, in the middle of that story, I just got this overwhelming wave of the futility of ALL THE THINGS. D: D: Anyway, it's cute little book, if completely random at times in its selections.

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