Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott FitzgeraldA collection of early short stories which helped make Fitzgerald's name, Tales of the Jazz Age combines period pieces the most notable of which is the novella length 'May Day' with more fanciful creations, such as the fantastical 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button', recently made into a Hollywood film. Also containing the now classic story 'The Diamond as Big as the Ritz', as well as lesser known sketches and tales, this diverse selection, compiled

mercenary and manipulative

but most are in the way we are living today

and of his family’s struggle to forge a new future

and then suddenly so touching' DAVID NICHOLLS'

this exploration of loss

One night at a party he meets Anton

in a definitive text

Where can we live if not in each other's shadow

Will the President’s cat find his way home

especially in the turbulent political weather of the twenty-first century

and love in ways that rebuke the official record we call history

two men meet up in a Dublin restaurant