This Side of Paradise: Francis Fitzgerald

These sumptuous new hardback editions mark the 70th anniversary of Fitzgerald`s death.

Increasingly disillusioned by the rejection slips that studded the walls of his room and his on/off engagement to Zelda Sayre, Fitzgerald began his third revision of the novel that was to become This Side of Paradise.

The story of a young man`s painful sexual and intellectual awakening that echoes Fitzgerald`s own career, it is also a portrait of the lost generation that followed straight on from the First World War, `grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken` and wanting money and success more than anything else.