ABSTRACT

F. Scott Fitzgerald left behind a substantial body of work on New York, yet his city remains in our time terra incognita, talked about but rarely well met. Lost City takes on this important and under-examined, indeed misunderstood and misrepresented, aspect of Fitzgerald's writing. The author shows that Fitzgerald's geography amounts to more than the Plaza Hotel and a wasteland. His writing depicts a variety of districts and neighborhoods. His is not the New York of the Roaring Twenties. Locating Fitzgerald's

chapter |11 pages

Symbols of New York

This Side of Paradise

chapter |10 pages

A Day in the History of the City

“May Day”

chapter |16 pages

Scenes from a “Carnival by the Sea”

The Beautiful and Damned

chapter |14 pages

“A Picture of New York Life”

The Great Gatsby

chapter |10 pages

Good Family, Old Money, Elite Society

“The Rich Boy”

chapter |11 pages

Saying Goodbye to the Road Not Taken

“My Lost City”