'It was an age of miracles, it was an age of art, it was an age of excess, and it was an age of satire.'
Scott Fitzgerald's first stories caught the spangled extravagances if the Jazz Age with such brilliance that hee was catapulted to thr forefront of American society, a writer who was to become a legend through his lifestyle as well as is work.
In this later selection of short stories and autobiographical pieces, he traces a path through the wild surface-patterns of glitter and excess to look again - with nostalgia, with affection, often with more than a little despair - at the ways in which he and his fellow Americans had been affected by 'the greatest,gaudiest spree in history'.