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The Beautiful and Damned

Yazan: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Seslendiren: William Dufris
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Set in the heady Jazz Age of New York, The Beautiful and Damned chronicles the relationship between Anthony Patch, a Harvard-educated aspiring aesthete, and his beautiful trophy wife, Gloria, as they wait to inherit his grandfather's fortune. Anticipating easy millions, they embrace the glittering, hedonistic lifestyle of the pretentious nouveaux riches but find that they are living a dream that is all too fleeting.

A devastating satire of reckless ambition and squandered talent, Fitzgerald's novel is also a shattering portrait of a marriage wasted by alcohol and wealth. It depicts an America embarked on the greatest spree in its history, a world Fitzgerald embraced even as he attacked its false social values and shallow literary tastes. Lyrical, romantic, yet cruelly incisive, it signaled a new stage in Fitzgerald's career.

(P)1999 Blackstone Audio Classics Genre Fiction Kurgu Literary Fiction Evlilik Esprili
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“The Jazz Age chronicler’s first great novel.”

(The Times (London))

“No one has written more elegiacally about America than F. Scott Fitzgerald.”

(The Guardian (London))

“If Francis Scott Fitzgerald had not existed, it would have been necessary to invent him.”

(Sunday Times (London))
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The characters created are brilliantly realised and although narrated a bit fast, you are drawn in. The life of society people in New York is portrayed in its wit and pseudo profundity. Then it all goes wrong.

The Decline and Fall of Anthony Patch

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Ignoring the period-typical attitudes, this was a very enjoyable read. It was the most misogynistic thing I have ever read though. Also the most racist. I get that the 1920s were, but the other classics I've read written or set in that time period are nowhere near as bad, maybe it's an American thing.

I like how this flicks into script style during group conversations. It really helps keep track of who's talking. That can sometimes be lost in regular prose.

The descriptions were vivid. I felt like I was in 1920s New York.

The pacing of this was strange especially with how some events (like Anthony and Gloria making up at the end if book one) were just glossed over when they seem rather important. The same with the reappearance of Dot in book three. I struggled with how long the chapters are. 50 pages, even with the titled scenes within was too much.

I completely lost interest in this for a couple of months then got it on audiobook and got back into it.

I love the colour pallette my edition let me use for annotations.

Rich people's lives falling apart around them is one of my favourite genres of book.

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An exquisitely sad, precise and wistful evocation of a bygone age, both elegant and ugly at the same time in its depiction of the damage human beings can do to each other (and themselves) in the pursuit of their feelings of entitlement to love, wealth and happiness.

Jazz Age Classic

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I really enjoyed revisiting this book. It captured the atmosphere and selfishness of the characters wonderfully well. A classic.

Fantastic

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What a horrible and annoying way of narrating female parts of the dialogue. Don’t think I can tolerate it enough to finish listening to this book.

Couldn’t finish because of the narrator

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