The Last Tycoon Condition:Well Read or the man who has

or the man who has left her forever changed

to live a life of adventure and risk

Tip over into a subterranean noir of the most electronic generation

The extracts are drawn from documentary material in six languages and the majority were translated for this collection

the author’s wife

The Last Tycoon Condition:Well Read or the man who hasThe Last Tycoon, edited by the renowned literary critic Edmund Wilson, was first published a year after Fitzgerald's death and includes the author's notes and outline for his unfinished literary masterpiece. It is the story of the young Hollywood mogul Monroe Stahr, a character inspired by the life of boy genius Irving Thalberg, and is an expos of the studio system in its heyday.