| May Day Contributor(s): Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Author) |
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ISBN: 1434116816 ISBN-13: 9781434116819 Publisher: Waking Lion Press OUR PRICE: $17.09 Product Type: Hardcover Published: July 2008 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Physical Information: 0.31" H x 6" W x 9" (0.61 lbs) 72 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: May Day, Fitzgerald's first great novelette, mingles autobiographical details with events from contemporary history. In May 1919, after an interfraternity dance at Delmonico's, Fitzgerald was bounced out of the Fifty-ninth-Street Childs for a disturbance similar to the one created by Peter Himmel in the story. At the same time, the assault on the New York Trumpet by a mob of drunken soldiers parallels a raid on the socialist New York Call during the red scare of 1919. Like many of Fitzgerald's stories from Tales of the Jazz Age, May Day includes a "touch of disaster"--in this case the violent despair of down-and-out Yale man Gordon Sterrett--which is contrasted with the oblivious pursuit of pleasure by Gordon's double, his wealthy, man-about-town classmate, Philip Dean. May Day is a masterpiece from one of America's greatest writers. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press. |