Afternoon of an Author (A Scribner Classic/Collier Edition)
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| Rating | : | 4.26 (627 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0020198604 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 226 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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A good afternoon read. This is one of the later collections of FSF's work, having been published in 1957. It contains some of his short stories which do not appear in any other collection. It also contains some of his essays, none of which I had ever read before. They were most revealing. The essays, written in first person, make one realize that Fitzgerald is always front and center in most of his . D. R. Schryer said Fascinating autobiography of the greatest thriller writer. It's difficult to believe that this is the first review of Eric Ambler's autobiography, for Ambler is widely recognized as the inventor of the modern suspense novel. Furthermore, many of his fans -- including this reviewer -- believe that Ambler has never been surpassed in this genre. Personally, I would go still further and say that I have never read any author in any genre w. "best fitzgerald short story collection" according to David Smydra. Even though this title appears to be out-of-print, I highly recommend taking Amazon's offer to track one down for you. It is by far Fitzgerald's best collection of shorter work, ranging from his younger Bazil stories to his more mature "semi-Hollywood" work. It also displays his various abilities with modernist literature (viz. the title story) that marks him as a writer truly
Afternoon of an Author contains fourteen uncollected short stories and six uncollected essays, evenly distributed over the course of F. Scott Fitzgerald's writing career, beginning with the autobiographical essay called "Who's Who - and Why," which he wrote for The Saturday Evening Post in 1920, and ending with "News of Paris - Fifteen Years Ago," a story found among Fitzgerald's papers, apparently written in 1940.