The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories (Penguin Classics) - Fitzgerald, F. Scott

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories (Penguin Classics) by Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Format: Trade Paperback

Published by Penguin Classics, 2008

In the title story of this collection by one of America’s greatest writers, a baby born in 1860 begins life as an old man and proceeds to age backward. F. Scott Fizgerald hinted at this kind of inversion when he called his era “a generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken.” Perhaps nowhere in American fiction has this “Lost Generation” been more vividly preserved than in Fitzgerald’s short fiction. Spanning the early twentieth-century American landscape, this original collection captures, with Fitzgerald’s signature blend of enchantment and disillusionment, America during the Jazz Age.