The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories (2008)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories is a 2008 social life and customs book written by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
The inspiration for the major motion picture starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett, plus eighteen other stories by the beloved author of The Great GatsbyIN THE TITLE STORY, a baby born in 1860 begins life as an old man and proceeds to age backward. F. Scott Fizgerald hinted at this kind of inversion when he called his era "a generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken." Perhaps nowhere in American fiction has this "Lost Generation" been more vividly preserved than in Fitzgerald's short fiction. Spanning the early twentieth-century American landscape, this original collection captures, with Fitzgerald's signature blend of enchantment and disillusionment, America during the Jazz Age.
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What is The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories about?
The inspiration for the major motion picture starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett, plus eighteen other stories by the beloved author of The Great GatsbyIN THE TITLE STORY, a baby born in 1860 begins life as an old man and proceeds to age backward. F. Scott Fizgerald hinted at this kind of inversion when he called his era "a generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken." Perhaps nowhere in American fiction has this "Lost Generation" been more vividly preserved than in Fitzgerald's short fiction. Spanning the early twentieth-century American landscape, this original collection captures, with Fitzgerald's signature blend of enchantment and disillusionment, America during the Jazz Age.
When was The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories published?
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories was published in 2008.
Who made The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories?
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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