Lost City
Author | : Lauraleigh O'Meara |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 2013-12-16 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781136718120 |
ISBN-10 | : 1136718125 |
Rating | : 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Download or read book Lost City written by Lauraleigh O'Meara and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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