{"product_id":"this-side-of-paradise-9780198848110","title":"This Side of Paradise","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e'The wise writer, I think, writes for the youth of his own generation, the critic of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.'\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFollowing the education and young life of Amory Blaine, from indulged only child to disillusioned war veteran, \u003cem\u003eThis Side of Paradise\u003c\/em\u003e is a thinly veiled account of Fitzgerald's time as a Princeton undergraduate and an aspiring writer set against the turbulent background of adolescence, first loves, and the outbreak of World War I. Amory moves through a dynamic whirl of exuberant youth, university escapades and adventures home and abroad as one of a new, restless American generation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis Side of Paradise\u003c\/em\u003e ensured immediate fame as well as notoriety for F. Scott Fitzgerald. Not only Fitzgerald's bestselling novel during his lifetime, it was also the work against which each of his later novels was measured. It is impossible to overestimate the importance of \u003cem\u003eThis Side of Paradise\u003c\/em\u003e: without it, the writing career of one of the twentieth-century's most popular novelists would have been immeasurably different. Brilliant and original in style and structure, brimful of literary experimentalism and fearless originality, it was a spectacular launching for Fitzgerald's career, and instantly stamped him as the bard of the Jazz Age.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-11159428\"\u003eF. Scott Fitzgerald\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/29\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.60h x 5.00w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198848110\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0198848110\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-LIT\"\u003eLiterary Criticism\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-LIT000000\"\u003eGeneral\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eF. Scott Fitzgerald\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePhilip McGowan \u003c\/strong\u003eis Senior Lecturer at Queen's University Belfast, President of the European Association for American Studies and an Executive Board Member of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Society. He has written chapters and articles on F. Scott Fitzgerald and carnival, cities, and architecture that have appeared in the \u003cem\u003eFitzgerald Review\u003c\/em\u003e and other journals and collections (e.g. Blazek and Rattray's \u003cem\u003eTwenty-First Century Readings\u003c\/em\u003e of \u003cem\u003eTender Is the Night, \u003c\/em\u003e 2007; Harold Bloom's \u003cem\u003eThe Great Gatsby\u003c\/em\u003e, 2010; Bryant Mangum, \u003cem\u003eF. Scott Fitzgerald in Context\u003c\/em\u003e, 2013).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44498710528237,"sku":"9780198848110","price":11.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_63446d09-b92f-4168-a114-a884861f507f.jpg?v=1700965501","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/this-side-of-paradise-9780198848110","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}