The Beautiful and Damned
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Taste attributes: dramaromanceslowfresh & originalheavyrealisticlinearenclosedemotive & stirringself destruction/implosioncomplex relationshipsocial commentary
Boxlist takeEmotional and contained: a slow-burning novel. Best if you like stories that hit hard.
Pace: slow · Originality: balanced · Tone: balanced · Weight: balanced · Realism: balanced · Story: balanced · Structure: linear · Look: balanced · Scale: confined · Emotional punch: stirringHow we score
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4.1 / 5
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About This Book
First published in 1922, The Beautiful and Damned followed Fitzgerald's impeccable debut, This Side of Paradise, thus securing his place in the tradition of great American novelists. Embellished with the author's lyrical prose, here is the story of Harvard-educated, aspiring aesthete Anthony Patch and his beautiful wife, Gloria.
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- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Published
- 1922
- Pages
- 439
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