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With other miscellanous pieces by Scott Fitzgerald, together with letters from Gertrude Stein, Edith Warton, T.S Eliot, Thomas Wolfe and John Dos Passos and essays and poems by Paul Rosenfeld, Glenway Wescott, John Dos Passos, John Peale Bishop and Edmund Wilson.

The Crack-up was first published by New directions in 1945 and is now being rediscovered by a new generating of readers, Compiled and edited by Edmund Wilson shortly after Fitzgeralds death, The crack up tells the story of fitzgeralds sudden descent at age thirty-nine from a life of success and glamour to one of emptiness and despair, and his determination recovery. This vigorous and reavealing collection of essays and letters renders the tale of a man whose personality still charms us all and whose reckless gaiety and genious made him a living symbol of the Jazz age. For those who grew up with The Great Gatsby or Tender Is the Night, this extraordinary autobiographical collection provides a unique personal blend of the romance and reality embodied by Fitzgeralds literature and his life.