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Fitzgerald and Hemingway: A Dangerous Friendship
With substantial additions and new revelations to Bruccoli's groundbreaking earlier work--including correspondence only recently discovered--this book provides the definitive account of the writers' unpredictable friendship, from their first meeting in Paris in 1925 to Fitzgerald's untimely death in Hollywood in 1940.
Paperback, 272 pages
Published
December 28th 1994
by Manly
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For one, reading this book should make us all a little guilty about the lost art of letter writing. Somehow I don't think our texts and e-mails full of bastardized lingo are ones for the ages. Anyway, Bruccoli relies primarily on the written communication between Fitzgerald and Hemingway as the accounts of their in person interactions are often apocryphal (I'm including Hemingway's claims about their friendship from A Moveable Feast in this assessment) and their communication with their editor,...more
I remember this book and the discussion, but given the publication date, it's likelier that I read Bruccoli's precursor Scott and Ernest, which presents essentially the same argument.
Story of the friendship and correspondence between the literary giants of Hemingway and Fitzgerald. The correspondence starts friendly and detoriates into criticism. Particularily interesting to me is Fitzgerald's descent into depression as his work sold less and less.
Bruccoli is the preeminant writer on both Fitz and Hem and this is a great book that attempts to sort out the fact from the rumor and romanticism that surround the difficult relationship between two of modern fiction's best authors.
It's out of print, but if you can find it, it's worth the effort.
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Matthew Bruccoli was Professor of English at the University of South Carolina and a world-renowned expert on the life and works of F. Scott Fitzgerald.
After hearing a radio broadcast of Fitzgerald's The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, he was hooked and immediately purchased a copy of The Great Gatsby. He has authored many books on Fitzgerald, including what is considered to be the best biography of...more
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After hearing a radio broadcast of Fitzgerald's The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, he was hooked and immediately purchased a copy of The Great Gatsby. He has authored many books on Fitzgerald, including what is considered to be the best biography of...more
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