ESQUIRE MAGAZINE Jan 1940 Holiday Issue PETTY GIRL Pin-Up + F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Description: ESQUIRE MAGAZINE Jan 1940 Holiday Issue PETTY GIRL Pin-Up + F. SCOTT FITZGERALD. 176 pages (including covers). Petty Girl Pin-Up (page 31): "So he pointed out - even if we are divorced we're still human." Also includes the first installment of Pat Hobby Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Pat Hobby Stories are a collection of 17 short stories written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, first published by Arnold Gingrich of Esquire magazine between January 1940 and May 1941, and later collected in one volume in 1962. The last five installments in Esquire of The Pat Hobby Stories were published posthumously; Fitzgerald died on December 21, 1940. Pat Hobby is a down-and-out screenwriter in Hollywood, once successful as "a good man for structure" during the silent age of cinema, but now reduced to an alcoholic hack hanging around the studio lot. Most stories find him broke and engaged in some ploy for money or a much-desired screen credit, but his antics usually backfire and end in further humiliation. Drawing on his own experiences as a writer in Hollywood, Fitzgerald portrays Pat Hobby with self-deprecating humor and nostalgia. Arnold Gingrich, in an introduction to The Pat Hobby Stories, notes how, "while it would be unfair to judge this book as a novel, it would be less than fair to consider it as anything but a full-length portrait. It was as such that Fitzgerald worked on it, and would have wanted it presented in book form, after its original magazine publication. He thought of it as a comedy." Please see my other listings for additional issues of Esquire. Shipping will be combined for multiple purchases.

Price: 29.99 USD

Location: Walpole, Maine

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