Record details

• Physical Description: 509 p. 22 cm.
• Publisher: New York, Scribner [1963]

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

pt. 1. Winter dreams. May day -- Winter dreams -- Absolution -- "The sensible thing" -- The great Gatsby -- The rich boy -- Basil and Cleopatra -- pt. 2. The crack-up. Outside the cabinet-maker's -- Babylon revisited -- Echoes of the jazz age -- Crazy Sunday -- Family in the wind -- From Tender is the night [chapters 1-6] -- pt. 3. Pasting it together. The crack-up -- Pasting it together -- Handle with care -- pt. 4. Handling it with care. Afternoon of an author -- "I didn't get over" -- The long way out -- Financing Finnegan -- The lost decade -- From The last tycoon [chapters 1 and 4].