The Last Tycoon

The last novel by the great Fitzgerald, published after his death. A story about the “golden age” of Hollywood—the era that has irreversibly passed, when cinema was not a business, but an Art.

Film magnate Monroe Starr (based on the legendary producer Irving Thalberg) is a real darling of fate, a lucky man who caught the “American dream” by the tail. In his successful life there is no place for weaknesses—except for one: his love for a young starlet who understands perfectly well that at the “factories of dreams,” where everything is sold, decent girls cost a very high price…

The collection also includes stories based on Fitzgerald’s impressions from working as a screenwriter in Hollywood—about an alluring and elusive love and the pursuit of a big dream that at any moment can turn into tragedy.