LAST TYCOON (PENGUIN HARDBACK CLASSICS)

A novel of the glittering decadence of Hollywood in its heyday, this was Fitzgerald's last work and he died without completing it. The novel's tragic tycoon hero is Stahr. Caught in the crossfire of his own effortless cynicism and his silent, secret vulnerability, Stahr inhabits a world dominated by business, alcohol and promiscuity. The sharpness of Fitzgerald's prose and the steely simplicity of his style give a cutting edge to this study of Hollywood in the thirties.