{"product_id":"a-life-in-letters-a-new-collection-edited-and-annotated-by-matthew-j-bruccoli-9780684801537","title":"A Life in Letters: A New Collection Edited and Annotated by Matthew J. Bruccoli","description":"\u003cb\u003eA vibrant self-portrait of an artist whose work was his life.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In this new collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald's letters, edited by leading Fitzgerald scholar and biographer Matthew J. Bruccoli, we see through his own words the artistic and emotional maturation of one of America's most enduring and elegant authors. \u003ci\u003eA Life in Letters\u003c\/i\u003e is the most comprehensive volume of Fitzgerald's letters -- many of them appearing in print for the first time. The fullness of the selection and the chronological arrangement make this collection the closest thing to an autobiography that Fitzgerald ever wrote. \u003cbr\u003e While many readers are familiar with Fitzgerald's legendary jazz age social life and his friendships with Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Edmund Wilson, and other famous authors, few are aware of his writings about his life and his views on writing. Letters to his editor Maxwell Perkins illustrate the development of Fitzgerald's literary sensibility; those to his friend and competitor Ernest Hemingway reveal their difficult relationship. The most poignant letters here were written to his wife, Zelda, from the time of their courtship in Montgomery, Alabama, during World War I to her extended convalescence in a sanatorium near Asheville, North Carolina. Fitzgerald is by turns affectionate and proud in his letters to his daughter, Scottie, at college in the East while he was struggling in Hollywood. \u003cbr\u003e For readers who think primarily of Fitzgerald as a hard-drinking playboy for whom writing was effortless, these letters show his serious, painstaking concerns with creating realistic, durable art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Scribner Book Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/03\/1995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780684801537\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 528\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.56lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.22h x 6.15w x 1.14d","brand":"F. Scott Fitzgerald","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36639932416156,"sku":"9780684801537","price":26.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_2743d5c4-3d23-465f-ad94-4fddad965abf.jpg?v=1603850954","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/a-life-in-letters-a-new-collection-edited-and-annotated-by-matthew-j-bruccoli-9780684801537","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}