Description
| Product ID: | 9781847493859 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | DE |
| Series: | The F. Scott Fitzgerald Collection |
| Title: | The Pat Hobby Stories |
| Authors: | Author: Scott F. Fitzgerald |
| Page Count: | 160 |
| Subjects: | Classic fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction (pre c 1945) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Part of Alma Classics Fitzgerald series of lavishly produced editions with flaps and 4 b&w plates, The Pat Hobby Stories offers a vivid account of Hollywood and its politics and hierarchies. A Hollywood hack who has fallen on hard times since the end of the Silent Era, Pat Hobby spends his time hanging out in the studio lot attempting to devise schemes – such as pressing his secretary for blackmail material against a studio executive – to get more work and earn on-screen credits. Oblivious to his own shortcomings and filled with feelings of self-importance, he embarks on a course towards ever-increasing humiliation, suffering setbacks on both the professional and romantic fronts.A vivid account of Hollywood and its politics and hierarchies, these stories – which draw from Fitzgerald’s own travails as a screenwriter – were first printed in Esquire, although they were written with a view to being published as a cohesive volume. |
| Imprint Name: | Alma Classics |
| Publisher Name: | Alma Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2014-11-19 |