The Crack-Up by F. Scott Fitzgerald [TRADE PAPERBACK] 1956 • New Directions

The Crack-Up by F. Scott Fitzgerald VINTAGE TRADE PAPERBACK [1956] NEW DIRECTIONS Late 50's / early 60's printing.  Medium sized trade paperback. Book is in very good condition, *a spot of sticker damage on lower rear cover and some cracking to spine along center [see photos]  binding is sound.  Pages look and read as new.  Perfect reading copy! "The Crack-Up" was first published by New Directions in 1945 and is now being rediscovered by a new generation of readers.  Compiled and edited by Edmund Wilson shortly after Fitzgerald's death, "The Crack-Up" tells the story of Fitzgerald's sudden descent at age thirty-nine from a life of success and glamor to one of emptiness and despair, and his determined recovery. This vigorous and revealing collection of essays and letters renders the tale of a man whose personality still charms us all and whose reckless gaiety and genious made him a living symbol and the Jazz Age. For those who grew up with "The Great Gatsby" or "Tender is the Ni