The Crack-Up
Title | The Crack-Up PDF eBook |
Author | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | 356 |
Release | 2009-02-27 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0811219712 |
A self-portrait of a great writer 's rise and fall, intensely personal and etched with Fitzgerald's signature blend of romance and realism. 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."
The Crack-up with Other Pieces and Stories
Title | The Crack-up with Other Pieces and Stories PDF eBook |
Author | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 154 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | Short stories, English |
ISBN |
On Booze
Title | On Booze PDF eBook |
Author | Francis Scott Fitzgerald |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | 100 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780811219266 |
A collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald's best drinking stories makes this the most intoxicating New Directions Pearl yet!
A Short Autobiography
Title | A Short Autobiography PDF eBook |
Author | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 224 |
Release | 2011-08-02 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781439199077 |
A self-portrait of a great writer. A Short Autobiography charts Fitzgerald's progression from exuberant and cocky with "What I think and Feel at 25", to mature and reflective with "One Hundred False Starts" and "The Death of My Father." Compiled and edited by Professor James West, this revealing collection of personal essays and articles reveals the beloved author in his own words.
A Crack-up at the Race Riots
Title | A Crack-up at the Race Riots PDF eBook |
Author | Harmony Korine |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781937112103 |
This reprinting of Korine's first novel presents fragments of a portrait in multimedia: print, photographs, drawings, news clippings, handwriting, a poem, attempted diagrams, clip art; but mostly text, including hard-luck stories, off-and-on-colour jokes, script-scraps, found letters, free rhymes, drug flashbacks and other scenes, exploring the world of show-biz with feet set lightly in the black humours of the real ol' world. This excretion of the danglers of public life would make William Burroughs sigh and turn the page, at least.
The Cook Up
Title | The Cook Up PDF eBook |
Author | D. Watkins |
Publisher | Grand Central Publishing |
Total Pages | 272 |
Release | 2016-05-03 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1455588644 |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE O MAGAZINE BEST SUMMER BOOK Told by the man who lived it, The Cook Up is a riveting look inside the Baltimore drug trade as portrayed in the hit HBO series, The Wire. The smartest kid on his block in East Baltimore, D. was certain he would escape the life of drugs, decadence, and violence that had surrounded him since birth. But when his brother Devin is shot-only days after D. receives notice that he's been accepted into Georgetown University-the plans for his life are exploded, and he takes up the mantel of his brother's crack empire. D. succeeds in cultivating the family business, but when he meets a woman unlike any he's known before, his priorities are once more put into question. Equally terrifying and hilarious, inspiring and heartbreaking, D.'s story offers a rare glimpse into the mentality of a person who has escaped many hells.
California Crackup
Title | California Crackup PDF eBook |
Author | Joe Mathews |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 237 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | California |
ISBN | 0520268520 |
"California Crackup is brilliant. It cuts through the familiar tangle of diagnoses and quick-fix solutions to provide a comprehensive and persuasive analysis of California's dysfunctional governmental system. Paul and Mathews have coolly laid out a complicated story, made it readable, sometimes even comedic. It is the best discussion of the issue I've seen in over three decades."--Peter Schrag, author of California: America's High-Stakes Experiment "I know of no other work that combines so succinctly and enjoyably a historical summary of California's existing problems with such a sweeping and provocative program of reform."--Ethan Rarick, University of California, Berkeley "Mark Paul and Joe Mathews have produced an indispensable guide to California's crisis of governance--and they have done so with humor, scholarship, fairness and storytelling verve. Every Californian should read this book."--Steve Coll, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ghost Wars "Mark Paul... has a talent for presenting California Big Think stuff in an easily accessible and always readable way...[offering] clear and creative insights on the subject of California's collapse."--CalBuzz "Joe Mathews has done an artful, fascinating, and convincing job of connecting the California of today's Schwarzenegger era to the long history that made his rise possible.--James Fallows,The Atlantic Monthly on Mathews' book, The People's Machine