Reviews for Tales Of The Jazz Age

The average rating for Tales Of The Jazz Age based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-12-31 00:00:00 Richard Jensen Tales of the Jazz Age is a collection of 11 short stories published in 1922, although most had been published earlier in national magazines. Fitzgerald published 4 novels, that was his preferred way of writing. But he wrote short stories to make money, and being in constant financial trouble, it was the fastest way for him to make cash. This collection was good, it contains probably his most famous short story, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, as well as a few other very good ones. A couple I thought were nonsensical and not up to Fitzgerald's best. It's certainly worth the time and it is aptly named because if you ask almost anyone to name one writer associated with the Jazz Age or the Roaring 20's, 9 out of 10 will say F. Scott Fitzgerald. He defined that generation for writers, or more accurately, it defined him.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-08-03 00:00:00 Geno Orum 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