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The Diamond as Big as the Ritz

Categorie	Engels
Boeknummer	#343127-XH21
Titel	The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
Auteur	Scott Fitzgerald, F.
Boektype	Pocket
Uitgeverij	London : Penguin Books
Jaar van uitgave	1974
ISBN10	014001733X
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Pocket book, small 8vo.
Samenvatting	Although this novella stands out from his body of work in that it's a playful yet sinister fairy tale, it brilliantly fuses F. Scott Fitzgerald's ongoing lush fantasies about the extremes of wealth with his much more somber understanding of what underpins it. Loosely inspired by a summer he spent as a teenager working on a ranch in Montana, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz is Fitzgerald's hallucinatory paean to the American West and all its promises. It's the story of John T. Unger, a young Southerner who goes to Montana for summer vacation with a wealthy college classmate. But the classmate's family proves to be much more than simply wealthy: They own a mountain made entirely of one solid diamond. And they've gone to dreadful lengths to conceal their secret … meaning John could be... (Lees verder) in danger. But the family also has a daughter, lovely Kismine, and with her help, John may yet escape the fate her family has meted out to all their other guests so far …
Pagina's	238
Conditie	Goed — Browned.
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