1st Edition

Lost City Fitzgerald's New York

By Lauraleigh O'Meara Copyright 2002
    132 Pages
    by Routledge

    132 Pages
    by Routledge

    F. Scott Fitzgerald left behind a substantial body of work on New York, yet his city remains in our time terra incognita, talked about but rarely well met. Lost City takes on this important and under-examined, indeed misunderstood and misrepresented, aspect of Fitzgerald's writing. The author shows that Fitzgerald's geography amounts to more than the Plaza Hotel and a wasteland. His writing depicts a variety of districts and neighborhoods. His is not the New York of the Roaring Twenties. Locating Fitzgerald's

    Acknowledgments Preface Chapter One: Manhattan of the Moment Chapter Two: Symbols of New York Chapter Three: A Day in the History of the City Chapter Four: Scenes from a Carnival by the Sea Chapter Five: A Picture of New York Life Chapter Six: Good Family, Old Money, Elite Society Chapter Seven: Saying Goodbye to the Road Not Taken Afterword: Beginnings, Not Endings Select Bibliography Index

    Biography

    Lauraleigh O’Meara