A fascinating study in self-satire that brings to life the Hollywood years of F. Scott FitzgeraldThe setting: Hollywood: the character: Pat Hobby, a down-and-out screenwriter trying to break back into show business, but having better luck getting into bars. Written between 1939 and 1940, when F. Scott Fitzgerald was working for Universal Studios, the seventeen Pat Hobby stories were first published in "Esquire" magazine and present a bitterly humorous portrait of a once-successful writer who becomes a forgotten hack on a Hollywood lot. "This was not art" Pat Hobby often said, "this was an industry" where whom "you sat with at lunch was more important than what you dictated in your office."The Pat Hobby sequence, as Arnold Gingrich writes in his introduction, is Fitzgerald's "last word from his last home, for much of what he felt about Hollywood and about himself permeated these stories."
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評分伍迪老爺子在戛納被記者問及好萊塢時提到這本書 當時就覺得好萊塢-三十年代-菲茨傑拉德 三個tag的碰撞一定很有趣 卻沒想到是這樣帶著段子性質的短篇故事閤集 愛著It happened one night和Claudette Colbert的Pat Hobby就像Danny Rose一樣 倒黴又可愛 腦內瞭一下老爺子自己來演一定棒的不得瞭
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