Bibliograph

Boats against the current, the honeymoon summer of Scott and Zelda, Westport, Connecticut, 1920, Richard Webb, Jr. ; foreword by Robert Steven Williams

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Boats against the current, the honeymoon summer of Scott and Zelda, Westport, Connecticut, 1920, Richard Webb, Jr. ; foreword by Robert Steven Williams

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-179)

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

photographsillustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Boats against the current

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1237132162

Responsibility statement

Richard Webb, Jr. ; foreword by Robert Steven Williams

Sub title

the honeymoon summer of Scott and Zelda, Westport, Connecticut, 1920

Summary

In 1920, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald moved into a modest gray house in Westport, Connecticut, where they lived for five months. It was their honeymoon, the first time they had their own home, and the experience had a profound impact on their writings. Historian Richard Webb grew up in Westport a few doors down from where the Fitzgeralds had lived forty years earlier. When Webb heard that Westport was the real setting for "The Great Gatsby," he began to research the claim. This book tells the true story behind the famous novel and its hero, and uncovers the actual basis for Fitzgerald's novel, debunking the long-held belief that the book was set only across the Sound in Long Island. Illustrated with never-before-seen photos from the F.E. Lewis family as well as from the Fitzgeralds' scrapbooks and period newspaper clippings, this book explores compelling stories about Scott, Zelda, and their fantastically wealthy neighbor, multi-millionaire F.E. Lewis. Webb also recounts his own journey to make a documentary film that accompanied this book

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