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Gloria and Anthony Patch party until their money runs out – then their goal becomes Adam Patch’s fortune. Gloria’s beauty fades and Anthony’s drinking takes its horrible toll. Fitzgerald here portrays the decline of youthful promise with devastating clarity.
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Anthony Patch and Gloria Gibson are the golden children of the Jazz Age. They marry and embark on a life of glittering parties, lavish expenditure and scandalous revelry. When the money dries up their marriage founders. In this wistful novel Fitzgerald portrays the decline of youthful promise with devastating clarity.
| Weight | 0.277 kg |
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| Dimensions | 19.8 × 12.9 × 2.4 cm |
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| Cover | Paperback |
| Pages | 393 |
| Language | English |
| Edition | |Reprint |
| Dewey | 813.52 (edition:22) |
| Readership | General – Trade / Code: K |
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