The Last Tycoon
The Last Tycoon by Francis Scott Fitzgerald is a novel that explores the glittering decadence of Hollywood during its heyday. Published by Penguin Books in 1965, this new edition spans 196 pages and is presented in English. The narrative centers on Stahr, a tragic tycoon hero who navigates a world rife with business, alcohol, and promiscuity, reflecting Fitzgerald’s sharp prose and steely simplicity.
Readers will find a poignant examination of the complexities of Stahr’s character, caught between cynicism and vulnerability. The story delves into themes of love and moral necessity within the film industry, set against the backdrop of 1930s Hollywood. This unfinished work, left incomplete at Fitzgerald’s passing, offers a bittersweet farewell to the Great American Dream, inviting readers to contemplate the intricate interplay of ambition and disillusionment in the performing arts.
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A novel of the glittering decadence of Hollywood in its heyday, this was Fitzgerald’s last work and he died without completing it. The novel’s tragic tycoon hero is Stahr. Caught in the crossfire of his own effortless cynicism and his silent, secret vulnerability, Stahr inhabits a world dominated by business, alcohol and promiscuity. If there is a moral or social necessity to film-making in this West Coast never-never land, Stahr does not always believe in it. If there is love he does not always see it. The sharpness of Fitzgerald’s prose, the steely simplicity of his style, give a cutting edge to this study of Hollywood in the thirties, from which Fitzgerald draws a painfully bitter-sweet love affair and bids his own poignant farewell to the Great American Dream.
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