{"product_id":"2940016318967","title":"The Beautiful \u0026 Damned","description":"“A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.” \u003cbr\u003e― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1921 F. Scott Fitzgerald was twenty-five and heralded as the most promising writer of his generation, owing to the success of his first novel This Side of Paradise. Recently married to the girl of his dreams, the former Zelda Sayre, Fitzgerald built upon his sudden prosperity with The Beautiful and the Damned, a cautionary tale of reckless ambition and squandered talent set amid the glitter of Jazz Age New York. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe novel chronicles the relationship of Anthony Patch, a Harvard-educated, aspiring writer, and his beautiful young wife, Gloria. While they wait for Anthony’s grandfather to die and pass his millions on to them, the young couple enjoys an endless string of parties, traveling, and extravagance. Beginning with the pop and fizz of life itself, The Beautiful and the Damned quickly evolves into a scathing chronicle of a dying marriage and a hedonistic society in which beauty is all too fleeting.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eA fierce parable about the illusory quality of dreams, the intractable nature of reality, and the ruin wrought by time, The Beautiful and the Damned eerily anticipates the dissipation and decline that would come to the Fitzgeralds themselves before the decade had run its course.","brand":"Lions Gate Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47180513444080,"sku":"2940016318967","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940016318967_p0.jpg?v=1763632707","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940016318967","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}