The Crack-Up by F. Scott Fitzgerald [TRADE PAPERBACK] 1956 • New Directions

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The Crack-Up by F. Scott Fitzgerald

VINTAGE TRADE PAPERBACK [1956] NEW DIRECTIONS

Late 50's / early 60's printing. Medium sized trade paperback.

Book is in very good condition, *a spot of sticker damage on lower rear cover and some cracking to spine along center [see photos]

binding is sound. Pages look and read as new. Perfect reading copy!

"The Crack-Up" was first published by New Directions in 1945 and is now being rediscovered by a new generation of readers. Compiled and edited by Edmund Wilson shortly after Fitzgerald's death, "The Crack-Up" tells the story of Fitzgerald's sudden descent at age thirty-nine from a life of success and glamor to one of emptiness and despair, and his determined recovery. This vigorous and revealing collection of essays and letters renders the tale of a man whose personality still charms us all and whose reckless gaiety and genious made him a living symbol and the Jazz Age. For those who grew up with "The Great Gatsby" or "Tender is the Night," this extraordinary autobiographical collection provides a unique personal blend of the romance and reality embodied by Fitzgerald's literature and his life.