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The inspiration for the major motion picture starring Brad Pitt and Cate BlanchettA-plus eighteen other stories by the beloved author of The Great Gatsby

IN THE TITLE STORY, a baby born in 1860 begins life as an old man and proceeds to age backward. F. Scott Fizgerald hinted at this kind of inversion when he called his era A"a generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken.A" Perhaps nowhere in American fiction has this A"Lost GenerationA" been more vividly preserved than in FitzgeraldA's short fiction. Spanning the early twentieth-century American landscape, this original collection captures, with FitzgeraldA's signature blend of enchantment and disillusionment, America during the Jazz Age.

F. Scott Fitzg erald (1896-û1940) is the author of five novels, including The Great Gatsby, and six volumes of short stories. Patrick O-'Donnell is the chairman of the English department at Michigan State University.