A Hollywood hack who has fallen on hard times since the end of the Silent Era, Pat Hobby spends his time hanging out in the studio lot attempting to devise schemes - such as pressing his secretary for blackmail material against a studio executive - to get more work and earn on-screen credits. Oblivious to his own shortcomings and filled with feelings of self-importance, he embarks on a course towards ever-increasing humiliation, suffering setbacks on both the professional and romantic fronts. A vivid account of Hollywood and its politics and hierarchies, these stories - which draw from Fitzgerald's own travails as a screenwriter - were first printed in Esquire, although they were written with a view to being published as a cohesive volume.
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Part of Alma Classics Fitzgerald series of lavishly produced editions with flaps and 4 b&w plates, The Pat Hobby Stories offers a vivid account of Hollywood and its politics and hierarchies.
Contains: Pat Hobby s Christmas Wish, A Man in the Way, Boil Some Water Lots of It, Teamed with Genius, Pat Hobby and Orson Welles, Pat Hobby s Secret, Pat Hobby, Putative Father, The Homes of the Stars, Pat Hobby Does His Bit, Pat Hobby s Preview, No Harm Trying, A Patriotic Short, On the Trail of Pat Hobby, Fun in an Artist s Studio, Two Old-Timers, Mightier than the Sword, Pat Hobby s College Days.
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He was better than he knew, for in fact and in the literary sense he invented a generation. * The New York Times *

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781847493859
Publisert
2014-11-19
Utgiver
Vendor
Alma Classics
Vekt
198 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
128 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
160

Biographical note

Considered one of the finest American writers of the twentieth century, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was the author of various novels and short stories chronicling life in the US during the Roaring Twenties.