May Day

Resumen del libro

"All crowds have to howl."Although F.Scott Fitzgerald is known for the kind of subtle, polished social commentary found in his masterpiece "The Great Gatsby," his little-known novella "May Day" is unique in that it is the most raw, directly political commentary he ever wrote, and one of the most desperate works in his oeuvre.
It is a tale of the brutalities of the American class system-of privileged college boys, returned from a bloody war, and a group of intellectual left-wing journalists, all coming into confrontation in the heart of New York City on Mayday at the end of World War I. Fitzgerald's fine eye for detail is on special display and his relentless plot leads to one of his most shocking climaxes, in what is the first and only stand alone version of this rarity.

The Art of The Novella Series
Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. In the Art Of The Novella series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time.

Contributor Bio: Fitzgerald, F Scott
F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896, attended Princeton University, and published his first novel, " This Side of Paradise", in 1920. That same year he married Zelda Sayre and the couple divided their time among New York, Paris, and the Riviera, becoming a part of the American expatriate circle that included Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, and John Dos Passos. Fitzgerald was a major new literary voice, and his masterpieces include The""Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, "and "Tender Is the Night". He died of a heart attack in 1940 at the age of forty-four, while working on "The Love of the Last Tycoon". For his sharp social insight and breathtaking lyricism, Fitzgerald is known as one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century.

Biografía del autor

Junto con su esposa Zelda, heredera de una rica familia americana, Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) fue durante algunos años el centro de una brillante vida social e intelectual en los míticos escenarios dorados de los años veinte: París, Nueva York y Hollywood. Además de "El gran Gatsby", es el autor de "A este lado del paraíso" y "Hermosos y malditos", publicadas también en Alianza Editorial, "Suave es la noche" y "El último magnate".