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Loading... The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button: The Story That Inspired The Movie (original 1922; edition 2009)by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Work InformationThe Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1922)
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No me gustó. ( ) The only other Fitzgerald I've read is The Great Gatsby. This novella is totally different and not at all what I would have expected from the author. It was really quite funny and a pleasure to read. I'm sure there's a moral to the story in there somewhere as there always is. Perhaps that that adage "if I knew then, what I know now" is hogwash since Button did, in a sense, Know Then yet he lived an ordinary life (as much as one can that ages in reverse) filled with the same mistakes and triumphs as someone born in the usual way. An interesting, sometimes humorous, account of a man who lives his life backward. He is born quite old and gets younger. Once you have disassociated yourself from the impossibility of any woman surviving such a birth and the idea that any man would accept that this even older man is his son, you begin to have a view of Benjamin Button as a soul sadly out of time. Not, therefore, much unlike some of the rest of us, who are living our lives in forward time and having just as difficult a time fitting in. Enjoyable and certainly thought-provoking. Can't imagine what suggested this idea to Fitzgerald. no reviews | add a review
Belongs to SeriesBelongs to Publisher SeriesIs contained inNovels and Stories 1920-1922: This Side of Paradise / Flappers and Philosophers / The Beautiful and the Damned / Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald (indirect) F Scott Fitzgerald Premium 9 Book Collection (5 novels & 40 short stories) by F. Scott Fitzgerald (indirect) American Fantastic Tales: Boxed Set by Peter Straub (indirect) Has the adaptation
In 1860 Benjamin Button is born an old man and mysteriously begins aging backward. "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," a witty and fantastical satire about aging, is one of Fitzgerald's most memorable stories. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.52Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1900-1944LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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