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If you are a fan of F. Scott Fitzgerald, this book is an absolute must-have! While I own just about everything that is written by or about Fitzgerald, this is perhaps my favorite book to peruse. It is compiled just like a personal scrapbook and is replete with photos of the Fitzgeralds as well as articles (by and about Fitzgerald)written in the 20s and 30s. Much of this content you will not find elsewhere, at least not in such abundance. Bruccoli, America's leading Fitzgerald scholar (as well as Fitz's own daughter, Scotty) did a spectacular job of putting this together. The scrapbook format gives the book an intimate nature and the set up is extremely attractive. Best of all, at just around $20, it is an absolute steal for the price! If you love Fitzgerald, don't go without this collection! It would make a splendid addition to any high school classroom that teaches Fitzgerald or any personal library that celebrates true literary classics.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Something marvelously and tragically American
By R. M. Peterson TOP 1000 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on July 10, 2012
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"The Romantic Egoist" was a provisional title for F. Scott Fitzgerald's first novel, ultimately published as "This Side of Paradise". For this book an "s" was appended, thereby adding Zelda to Scott and making a very apt title for this collection of photographs, letters, newspaper notices, book reviews, and ephemera from the lives of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, the First Couple of the Jazz Age/Roaring Twenties. Most of the contents of THE ROMANTIC EGOISTS come from seven scrapbooks and five photograph albums of the Fitzgerald family. They are arranged chronologically, from the "Welcome, Little Stranger" page of Scott's baby book (1896) to a newspaper article announcing Zelda's death in a hospital fire (1948).
The Fitzgeralds' daughter, Scottie, had a major role in the compilation and preparation of this book, which originally was published in 1974. It was re-issued in this paperback edition in 2003.
For those who already are familiar with the lives of Scott and Zelda and their place in American cultural history, this is an interesting, perhaps even fascinating, book. But it does not make for a particularly good introduction to the Fitzgeralds. (For that, I recommend "Scott Fitzgerald", by Andrew Turnbull.) Like most family scrapbooks or photo albums (have they now gone the way of the rotary dial telephone?), it is a hodgepodge, with only a faint narrative story-line. Moreover, the layout is too chaotic and the quality of many of the reproductions ranges from middling to poor.
But, again, there is plenty to attract and reward the attention of the Fitzgerald enthusiast.Read more ›
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Stunning collection of Fitzgerald ephemera
By Christopher D. Bevard on November 10, 2006
Format: Paperback
My girlfriend, a fellow Fitz enthusiast, bought me this for my birthday and it ranks among the best gifts I've ever received. This is an amazing and exhaustively comprehensive scrapbook of the lives of the Fitzgeralds. If you're a fan and come away from this without wanting to get your hands on every single thing those two touched...there's something very, very wrong with you. ;) Beautiful book.
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