Unfinished at the time of his death, F. Scott Fitzgerald's
"The Last Tycoon" is a story of doomed love set against the
extravagance of America's booming film industry. This
"Penguin Modern Classics" edition is edited with an
introduction by Edmund Wilson. The studio lot looks like
'thirty acres of fairyland' the night that a mysterious
woman stands and smiles at Monroe Stahr, the last of the
great Hollywood princes. Enchanted by one another, they
begin a passionate but hopeless love affair, starting with a
fast-moving seduction as slick as a scene from one of
Stahr's pictures. The romance unfolds, frame by frame,
watched by Cecilia, a thoroughly modern girl who has taken
her lessons in sentiment and cynicism from all the movies
she has seen. Her buoyant humour and satirical eye perfectly
complement Fitzgerald's panorama of Hollywood at its most
lavish and bewitching.
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