No one described the Roaring 20's and the café society more elegant than F. Scott Fitzgerald. In the world of the Belles-lettres the author is (to put it in his own words)
"an Athenian among Greeks", no doubters there!
As luck would have it, I had just finished one of his novels before going to NYC: The Beautiful & Damned
The novel is all about the relationship of Adam Patch and his wife Gloria. The classical themes of Fitzgerald are present: heavy drinking, the East coast jet set, World War I and the lost generation.
The love story is a tempestuous and melancholical one, resembling the author's relationship with his wife Zelda (picture below). It's witty, elegant, moving and amply deserves a couple of hours of your life.
Quote:
Her eyes appeared to regard him out of many thousand years: all emotion she might have felt, all words she might have uttered, would have seemed inadequate beside the adequacy of her silence, ineloquent against the eloquence of her beauty - and of her body, close to him, slender and cool.
