Crazy Sundays: F Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood [Paperback]

Aaron Latham (Author)

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• ASIN: B002JL9KOU
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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4.0 out of 5 stars A good look at a life of art -- at a piece of one, anyway, March 31, 2006

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Mike Smith (Albuquerque, NM) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Crazy Sundays: F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood (Paperback)

With the exception of a bunch of books about "The Great Gatsby," I've never read a biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald other than this one.

And yet this was still very enjoyable.

This is a fascinating, well-written portrait of a successful novelist trying to make it in an element that is not his own. Fitzgerald went from being acclaimed for his books and stories, to being a nobody hired to revise scripts. In Hollywood, no one seemed to care who he was, and life was always a struggle for him--an interesting struggle though, a page-turning struggle, a struggle worth reading about.

Every chapter of the book is a different one of his Hollywood writing projects, and by the end of it all, you are almost certain to have a good idea not only of Fitzgerald's time in Hollywood and of him as a man who "knew more in his books than he did in real life," but of his troubled relationships, his family life, his uneven past, and his ambitions.

This is a very enjoyable book that is very worth reading for any fan of his work, or for anyone interested in the writing process.

4.0 out of 5 stars From the heights to the lows, February 17, 2012

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Martin Turnbull "Author of the GARDEN OF ALLA... (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Crazy Sundays: F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood (Hardcover)

It must have been great to be F. Scott Fitzgerald in the 1920s. He was producing work that was so acclaimed it earned him the sobriquet "the voice of his generation." He was famous, rich, in love, and in Paris. The 1930s, however, were not so kind. He was out-of-print, in debt, his wife, Zelda, was in a sanitarium, and he was in Hollywood tinkering with other people's scripts, most of which never went anywhere. "Crazy Sundays" is an interesting look at how someone can fall from so high to so low. Recommended.