The Beautiful and Damned

F. Scott Fitzgerald, who announced to the world the beginning of a new century—the “Jazz Age”—stands apart in modern American classics. Inseparable from that legendary era, he captured it more vividly and more objectively than anyone else. Ernest Hemingway wrote about him: “His talent was as natural as a pollen pattern on a butterfly’s wings.”

We all remember the stunning novel “The Great Gatsby” and its brilliant film adaptation with Leonardo DiCaprio in the lead role.

This time, Fitzgerald introduces new heroes of the Roaring Twenties—brilliant Anthony Patch and his beautiful wife, Gloria. While they wait for Anthony’s grandfather, a multi-millionaire, to die and leave them his enormous fortune, they burn through life in New York—dining at the best restaurants, renting the most prestigious housing. It doesn’t immediately dawn on them that every choice has a price—sometimes an unbearable one…