The Pat Hobby Stories
€10.00
Product Information
| ISBN | 9781847493859 |
|---|---|
| Authors | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| Publisher | Alma Books Ltd |
| Format | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 160 |
| Weight (kg) | 0.188 |
| Publishing Date | 19/11/2014 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €9.43 |
| Tax | €0.57 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €10.00 |
| Availability | 2 units in external warehouse |
Product Description
A Hollywood hack who has fallen on hard times since the end of the Silent Era, Pat Hobby spends his time hanging out in the studio lot attempting to devise schemes – such as pressing his secretary for blackmail material against a studio executive – to get more work and earn on-screen credits. Oblivious to his own shortcomings and filled with feelings of self-importance, he embarks on a course towards ever-increasing humiliation, suffering setbacks on both the professional and romantic fronts.
A vivid account of Hollywood and its politics and hierarchies, these stories – which draw from Fitzgerald’s own travails as a screenwriter – were first printed in Esquire, although they were written with a view to being published as a cohesive volume.