{"product_id":"the-pat-hobby-stories-9780684804422","title":"The Pat Hobby Stories","description":"A fascinating study in self-satire that brings to life the Hollywood years of F. Scott Fitzgerald \u003cbr\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\" \u003cbr\u003e 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFitzgerald, F. Scott:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896. He attended Princeton University, joined the United States Army during World War I, and published his first novel, \u003ci\u003eThis Side of Paradise\u003c\/i\u003e, in 1920. That same year he married Zelda Sayre and for the next decade the couple lived in New York, Paris, and on the Riviera. Fitzgerald's masterpieces include \u003ci\u003eThe Beautiful and Damned\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Great Gatsby\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTender Is the Night\u003c\/i\u003e. He died at the age of forty-four while working on \u003ci\u003eThe Last Tycoon\u003c\/i\u003e. Fitzgerald's fiction has secured his reputation as one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century.","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50514302402834,"sku":"9780684804422","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8e892033-98b7-44f7-8cab-2501f60afa56.jpg?v=1730978722","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-pat-hobby-stories-9780684804422","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}