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A dazzling, intimate and wise novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald´s final years.

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In 1937, F. Scott Fitzgerald was a troubled, uncertain man whose literary success was long behind him. In poor health, with his wife consigned to a mental asylum and his finances in ruin, he struggled to make a new start as a screenwriter in Hollywood.

The last three years of Fitzgerald´s life, often obscured by the legend of his earlier Jazz Age glamour, are the focus of Stewart O´Nan´s heartfelt new novel. With flashbacks to key moments from Fitzgerald´s past, the story follows him as he arrives on the MGM lot, falls in love with brassy gossip columnist Sheilah Graham, begins work on The Last Tycoon, and tries to maintain a semblance of family life with the absent Zelda and their daughter, Scottie.

Fitzgerald´s orbit of literary fame and the Golden Age of Hollywood is brought vividly to life through the novel´s romantic cast of characters, from Dorothy Parker and Ernest Hemingway to Humphrey Bogart. Written with striking grace and subtlety, this wise and intimate portrait of a man trying his best to hold together a world that´s flying apart, if not gone already, is an American masterpiece.

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The heart of the novel is his penetrating description of Fitzgerald´s troubled self. The Sunday Times

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Stewart O´Nan is the author of fourteen previous novels, including The Odds; Emily, Alone; A Prayer for the Dying; and Snow Angels, as well as several works of nonfiction, including, with Stephen King, the bestselling Faithful. His novel Last Night at the Lobster was a US bestseller and finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He was born and raised in Pittsburgh where he lives with his family.

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