Tales of the Jazz Age

Oct 6, 2024 10:20 PM

Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' sees a baby born in 1860 begin life as an old man and then age backwards. F. Scott Fitzgerald 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 collection captures, with Fitzgerald's signature blend of enchantment and disillusionment, America during the Jazz Age.

Reviews

A master of the American short story

—— Philadelphia Enquirer

From a web of connections, Desai spins stories of history and loss that move the reader not with epiphanies, but through the sheer beauty of her storytelling

—— Time Out

Elegantly paced and smartly crafted

—— Fatima Bhutto , Financial Times

Anita Desai writes exquisitely

—— Allan Massie , Scotsman

Bewitchingly beautiful

—— The Times

Her writing is sensuous, radical and uncannily perceptive

—— The Times

India's finest writer in English

—— Independent

She is one of the best English language novelists of modern times

—— Daily Telegraph

One of the greatest short story writers alive

—— Ben Rice

One of the most important writers alive... enchantingly witty

—— Clive James

Etgar Keret's extraordinary imagination sets the reader free from slogans and headlines

—— Linda Grant

One of the greatest short story writers alive

—— Ben Rice

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