Hemingway Vs. Fitzgerald

Paris in the 20s: the era of literary expatriates Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald continues to burn in the imagination as a time of unparalleled glamour and romance. The legendary friendship and rivalry of these literary giants was compellingly chronicled by Hemingway in A Moveable Feast, but as Hemingway reminded the reader, that book is fiction. Here, in Fitzgerald and Hemingway, leading scholar Scott Donaldson goes beyond the mythologising to create a true, multi-faceted narrative of a great friendship fuelled by admiration, jealousy, and liquor - a heady mixture of literary scholarship, history, and gossip. With a dazzling cast of characters that includes legendary Scribner's editor Maxwell Perkins, the artist/socialites Gerald and Sara Murphy, Zelda Fitzgerald and Hadley Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, John Dos Passos, and agent Harold Ober, Scott Donaldson recounts the glory and pain of a writing life and the rise and fall of the great literary friendship of our time.