George Silverman's Explanation Book

Despite reading so much about him and his wife Zelda, I cannot help but reveal my mad crush on Fitzgerald. This short story collection of 15 different stories offered a little bit of everything that I adore about the author. Men who crave women they can't have, WWI veterans readjusting to life after the battlefield, rich versus poor, big city thrills, rural intrigue, and a little bit of comedy and mystery to boot!

Some of my fave sentences

All life was weather, a waiting through the hot where events had no significance for the cool that was soft and caressing like a woman's hand on a tired forehead.

It's an air of worry and poverty and sleepless nights

Love is fragile- she was thinking- but perhaps the pieces are saved, the things that hovered on lips, that might have been said. The new love, the new tenderness learned, are treasured up for the next lover.

Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.


Goodreads review published 03/08/19