The Rich Boy F. Scott Fitzgerald Foreword by John Updike KEY NOTE Containing all the ambience of The Great Gatsby, The Rich Boy is a perfect collection of Fitzgerald stories evoking the trappings and illusions of 1920s high society. 24 April 2015 SALES POINTS ISBN: 9781843914129 Format: B format PB Pages: 112pp Price: £7.99 Imprint: Hesperus Classics • Category: Classic Fiction • • • BIC Code: FC Rights: World nonexclusive ebook ISBN: 9781780944852 Also in the series: Lady Susan 9781843911302 Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 9781843910701 A House to Let 9781843910855 Three stories from the king of the Jazz Age: ‘The Rich Boy’, ‘The Bridal Party’ and ‘The Last of the Belles’ Set in the first part of the twentieth century, the stories deal with the recurring themes of money, love, lost opportunities and aging Foreword by the late great John Updike, best-selling American writer and Pulitzer prize winner Re-issuing with a stunning new series look alongside Lady Susan by Jane Austen, The Rich Boy by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson DESCRIPTION Undisputed king of Jazz Age writing, F. Scott Fitzgerald perfectly encapsulated all the glamour and despair of 1920s society. These three short stories are supreme examples of his craft. With wealth and privileges beyond measure, ‘rich boy’ Anson Hunter had every reason to expect life to be a breeze. Yet one by one his dreams fade away, leaving him with nothing. Slowly, painfully, he realises that beneath the sparkle and fizz of his glittering life lies only failure and disillusionment – the self-same emptiness that pervades the beautiful people of ‘The Last of the Belles’ and ‘The Bridal Party’. REVIEWS • • ‘One of Fitzgerald's more ambitious and deeply felt short stories’ Guardian ‘This is a welcome addition to the excellent Hesperus list’ TLS ABOUT THE AUTHOR American novelist and short-story writer, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) is in many ways the epitome of the Jazz Age, having written The Great Gatsby and The Beautiful and the Damned. A novelist, short-story writer, poet and critic, John Updike (1932–2009) is best known as the author of the Rabbit Trilogy and The Witches of Eastwick. NEW BOOK INFORMATION HESPERUS PRESS • 28 Mortimer Street, London, W1W 7RD • T: 0207 436 0869 E: [email protected] • W: www.hesperuspress.com Distributed by GRANTHAM BOOK SERVICES • Trent Road, Grantham, Lincolnshire NG31 7XQ • T: 01476 541 080 F: 01476 541 061 • E: [email protected] • W: www.granthambookservices.co.uk