On Booze [Paperback]

First you take a drink, F. Scott Fitzgerald once noted, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you. Fitzgerald wrote alcohol into almost every one of his stories.?F. Scott Fitzgerald's delicious, heady, vintage collection His writing is a kind of subdued magic, controlled and exquisite, the sort of thing you get from good string quartets. The writing I love the most places you into that story, that room, that rain soaked kiss. You can smell the air, hear the sounds, and feel your heart race as the characters does. Its something F. Scott Fitzgerald did so well, to describe a scene so gorgeously interwoven with rich emotional revelations, that you yourself have escaped from your own life for a moment. ? Fitzgerald will be read when many of his well-known contemporaries are forgotten.? His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. There have been many drunk writers . . . but none seems to have encapsulated the glamour of alcohol like Fitzgerald. Every sentence is its own glittering world...For all of Dorothy Parkers quips about cocktails and Charles Bukowskis bromides about beer, Fitzgeralds prose alcohol content remains unparalleledthe irony being that he was a lightweight. The great thing about Fitzgerald was his candor; verbal courage; simplicity. One little man with eyes really witnessing; objective in all he uttered, even about himself in a subjective slump.