Diamond as big as the Ritz
(Book)
Published
Brooklyn, NY : Melville House, [2012].
Format
Book
ISBN
9781612192208 (pbk.), 1612192203 (pbk.)
Physical Desc
84 pages ; 18 cm.
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Morris County Library - Adult Fiction | FICTION FITZGERALD, F. | Available |
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Published
Brooklyn, NY : Melville House, [2012].
Language
English
ISBN
9781612192208 (pbk.), 1612192203 (pbk.)
Notes
General Note
"First published June 1922 in the The Smart Set (The magazine edited by H.L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan) ; First published in volume form in the 1922 short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age, published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York."--T.p. verso.
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"Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness." Although this novella stands out from his body of work in that it's a playful yet sinister fairy tale, it brilliantly fuses F. Scott Fitzgerald's ongoing lush fantasies about the extremes of wealth with his much more somber understanding of what underpins it. Loosely inspired by a summer he spent as a teenager working on a ranch in Montana, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz is Fitzgerald's hallucinatory paean to the American West and all its promises. It's the story of John T. Unger, a young Southerner who goes to Montana for summer vacation with a wealthy college classmate. But the classmate's family proves to be much more than simply wealth: they own a mountain made entirely of one solid diamond. And they've gone to dreadful lengths to conceal their secret...meaning John could be in danger.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Fitzgerald, F. S. 1. (2012). Diamond as big as the Ritz . Melville House.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Fitzgerald, F. Scott 1896-1940. 2012. Diamond As Big As the Ritz. Melville House.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Fitzgerald, F. Scott 1896-1940. Diamond As Big As the Ritz Melville House, 2012.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Fitzgerald, F. Scott 1896-1940. Diamond As Big As the Ritz Melville House, 2012.
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