{"product_id":"the-beautiful-and-damned-paperback-1","title":"The Beautiful and Damned - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe classic novel of greed and vice from F. Scott Fitzgerald.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet in an era of intoxicating excitement and ruinous excess, changing manners and challenged morals, F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel chronicles the lives of Harvard-educated Anthony Patch and his beautiful, willful wife, Gloria. This bitingly ironic story eerily foretells the fate of the author and his own wife, Zelda--from its giddy romantic beginnings to its alcohol-fueled demise. A portrait of greed, ambition, and squandered talent, \u003ci\u003eThe Beautiful and Damned \u003c\/i\u003edepicts an America embarked on the greatest spree in its history, a world Fitzgerald saw \"with clearer eyes than any of his contemporaries.\"* By turns hilarious, heartbreaking, and chillingly prophetic, it remains one of his best-known works, which Gertrude Stein correctly predicted \"will be read when many of his well-known contemporaries are forgotten.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e*Tobias Wolff\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101582299359,"sku":"9780451530431","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/DgW4zDVVY89780451530431.webp?v=1781071766","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/the-beautiful-and-damned-paperback-1","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}