Description:
Author: Budd Schulberg
Publisher: Bantam A1051
Year: 1952 Print: 1 Cover Price: $.35
Condition: Book Grades Very Good. Light wear
Genre: Fiction/GGA/Historical
Pages: 406
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Considered by some to be Budd Schulbergs masterpiece,The Disenchantedtells the tragic story of Manley Halliday, a fabulously successful writer during the 1920sa golden figure in a golden agewho by the late 1930s is forgotten by the literary establishment, living in Hollywood and writing for the film industry. Halliday is hired to work on a screenplay with a young writer in his twenties named Shep, who is desperate for success and idolizes Halliday. The two are sent to New York City, where a few drinks on the plane begin an epic disintegration on the part of Halliday due to the forces of alcoholism he is heroically fighting against and the powerful draw of memory and happier times. Based in part on a real-life and ill-fated writing assignment between the author and F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1939, Schulbergs novel is at its heart a masterful depiction of Manley Hallidayat times bitter, at others sympathetic and utterly sorrowfulandThe Disenchantedstands as one of the most compelling and emotional evocations of generational disillusionment and fallen American stardom.
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