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The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button: The Story That Inspired The Movie (original 1922; edition 2009)

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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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.
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Title:The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button: The Story That Inspired The Movie
Authors:F. Scott Fitzgerald
Info:CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (2009), Paperback, 54 pages
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Tags:Classic, American Literature, Movie

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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1922)

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No me gustó. ( )
  mahebelen | Aug 25, 2023 |
This was cute. A quick, fun read about a man who ages backwards, much to the consternation of his family. ( )
  wisemetis | Jan 14, 2023 |
Well, that WAS curious. Hmm. ( )
  paroof | Dec 20, 2022 |
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. ( )
  JaymeK | Nov 15, 2022 |
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.

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  mattorsara | Aug 11, 2022 |
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Angeli, Giancarlo DeNarratoresecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Boran, OrsolaNarratoresecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Bortoluzzi, LauraTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Brick, ScottNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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As long ago as 1860 it was the proper thing to be born at home.
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This is the entry for the single story. Please don't combine with any collections or adaptions!
Also, do not combine with the graphic novel, which contains an adapted text by Nunzio DeFilippis & Christina Weir.
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