This Side of Paradise

What happens when love is warped by greed and status seeking? This is a look into contemporary American adolescence and young manhood.
" This Side of Paradise" is the first novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, exploring the difficult lives and values of the American youth after the First World War.It is written in a semi-autobiographical tone, presenting the handsome and idealistic student Amory Blaine, coming from a well-to-do family. The narrative strictly follows his ups and downs, love episodes, and interior life in such a way as to use him as a symbol of a whole generation.It is the novel that skyrocketed Fitzgerald' s fame and made possible his marriage to Zelda.
An extremely lyrical and passionate tale, " This Side of Paradise" is a must-read for fans and scholars of Fitzgerald and American literature.