Overview
The Crack-Up tells the story of Fitzgerald's sudden descent at the age of thirty-nine from glamorous success to empty despair, and his determined recovery. Compiled and edited by Edmund Wilson shortly after F. Scott Fitzgerald's death, this revealing collection of his essays--as well as letters to and from Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, T.S. Eliot, John Dos Passos--tells of a man with charm and talent to burn, whose gaiety and genius made him a living symbol of the Jazz Age, and whose recklessness brought him grief and loss. "Fitzgerald's physical and spiritual exhaustion is described brilliantly," noted The New York Review of Books: "the essays are amazing for the candor."
- | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- | Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
- | Publication Date: Feb 27, 2009
- | Number of Pages: 352 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0811218201
- | ISBN-13: 9780811218207
