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This Side of Paradise
Fiction e-Book-of-the-Month, Feb 2000. LITERALLY AN OVERNIGHT SELL-OUT in its first edition, here is F. Scott Fitzgerald's first and celebrated novel. Criticized as a pastiche of styles, yet dazzling in its breadth and biting relevance to his generation, This Side of Paradise established Fitzgerald as the golden boy of the Jazz Age, and launched him to success and fame. Written in the 1920s, when Fitzgerald was only twenty-three, the story follows Amory Blaine, a privileged and aimless young man, in his journey from prep school to university to the First World War. In this voyage, which parallels the author's own undergraduate experiences, Blaine becomes a symbol for "a new generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken." The novel crystallized for many young men and women of that age their feelings of being morally cast adrift and anchorless, and defined the phrase, "The Lost Generation."
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