The Pat Hobby Stories
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| Rating | : | 4.79 (965 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0684804425 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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Scott Fitzgerald was working for Universal Studios, the seventeen Pat Hobby stories were first published in Esquire magazine and present a bitterly humorous portrait of a once-successful writer who becomes a forgotten hack on a Hollywood lot. Scott Fitzgerald The setting: Hollywood: the character: Pat Hobby, a down-and-out screenwriter trying to break back into show business, but having better luck getting into bars. Written between 1939 and 1940, when F. A fascinating study in self-satire that brings to life the Hollywood years of F. "This was not art" Pat Hobby often said, "this was an industry" where whom "you sat with at lunch was more important than what you dictated in your office." The Pat Hobby sequence, as Arnold Gingrich writes in his introduction, is Fitzgerald's "last word from his last home, for much of what he felt about
If You're Curious About Fitzgerald, Read This Book While I enjoyed these stories, they don't come close, in quality, to much of Fitzgerald's earlier work. While some of these stories are funny, and while some possess excellent sentences and great, interesting images, none of them shine like "The Great Gatsby" or "The Diamond As Big As The Ritz." When I first finished this book, I found it hard to imagine that the same man who wrote "Gatsby" also wrote this collection of humorous stories about a truly pitiful Hollywood writer.Prompted by my new fascination with Fitzg. "Hollywood Without The Glamour and Glitz" according to C Jones. Pat Hobby, once a successful Hollywood screenwriter, is nothing more than a pathetic has been. Broke, tired, and scrambling to find work, Pat takes on some unconventional methods to fill his pockets and put his name back on the big screen. But things don't turn out as smooth as Pat hopes. After all, as Pat himself repeatedly states, "I'm just a writer," and, "it's a dog's life." Pat's antics backfire and in almost every story he is left with nothing but humiliation.The Pat Hobby stories were written between 19Hollywood Without The Glamour and Glitz Pat Hobby, once a successful Hollywood screenwriter, is nothing more than a pathetic has been. Broke, tired, and scrambling to find work, Pat takes on some unconventional methods to fill his pockets and put his name back on the big screen. But things don't turn out as smooth as Pat hopes. After all, as Pat himself repeatedly states, "I'm just a writer," and, "it's a dog's life." Pat's antics backfire and in almost every story he is left with nothing but humiliation.The Pat Hobby stories were written between 1939 and. 9 and. Bret Nicolaysen said The Brilliant Pat Hobby Stories. The Brilliant Pat Hobby Stories are just as the title says, brillliant. I have never red a collection of stories as this. The wit of Mr. Fitzgerald is astonishing as he captures ones attention and then ends the story with a dramatic twist that will leave one rolling on the floor.I have read nothing like these stories and I know that I will never read anything like them again. When my brother convinced me to read these stories I was, at first, a little skeptical about F. Scott Fitzgerald. I had heard my brother rant
He attended Princeton University, joined the United States Army during World War I, and published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920. Fitzgerald's masterpieces include The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, and Tender Is the Night. About the Author F. He died at the age of forty-four, while working on The Love of the Last Tycoon. Fitzgerald stands out as one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century. . Scott Fitgerald was born in St. That same year he married Zelda Sayre and the couple divided their time among New York, Paris, and the Riviera. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896
Fitzgerald's masterpieces include The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, and Tender Is the Night. F. That same year he married Zelda Sayre and the couple divided their time among New York, Paris, and the Riviera. He attended Princeton University, joined the United States Army during World War I, and published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920. He died at the age of forty-four, while working on The Love of the Last Tycoon. Fitzgerald stands out as