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The Pat Hobby Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1995, Trade Paperback)

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A fascinating study in self-satire that brings to life the Hollywood years of F. Scott Fitzgerald The setting: Hollywood: the character: Pat Hobby, a down-and-out screenwriter trying to break back into show business, but having better luck getting into bars. Written between 1939 and 1940, when F. Scott Fitzgerald was working for Universal Studios, the seventeen Pat Hobby stories were first published in Esquire magazine and present a bitterly humorous portrait of a once-successful writer who becomes a forgotten hack on a Hollywood lot. "This was not art" Pat Hobby often said, "this was an industry" where whom "you sat with at lunch was more important than what you dictated in your office." The Pat Hobby sequence, as Arnold Gingrich writes in his introduction, is Fitzgerald's "last word from his last home, for much of what he felt about Hollywood and about himself permeated these stories."

Product Identifiers

PublisherScribner

ISBN-100684804425

ISBN-139780684804422

eBay Product ID (ePID)11890

Product Key Features

Number of Pages192 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NamePat Hobby Stories

Publication Year1995

SubjectClassics, Short Stories (Single Author), General, Literary

Subject AreaFiction

AuthorF. Scott Fitzgerald

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight6.3 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5 in

Additional Product Features

LCCN95-037580

Dewey Edition23

Target AudienceTrade

Dewey Decimal813.52

Lc Classification NumberPs3511.I9p3 1995

Table of ContentCONTENTS Introduction by Arnold Gingrich Pat Hobby's Christmas Wish A Man in the Way "Boil Some Water -- Lots of It" Teamed with Genius Pat Hobby and Orson Welles Pat Hobby's Secret Pat Hobby, Putative Father The Homes of the Stars Pat Hobby Does His Bit Pat Hobby's Preview No Harm Trying A Patriotic Short On the Trail of Pat Hobby Fun in an Artist's Studio Two Old-Timers Mightier Than the Sword Pat Hobby's College Days Appendix