In The Perfect Hour, biographer James L. W. West III reveals the never-before told story of the romance between F. Scott Fitzgerald and his first love, Ginevra King. They met in January 1915, when Scott was nineteen, a Princeton student, and sixteen-year-old Ginevra, socially poised and confident, was a sophomore at Westover School. Their romance flourished in heartfelt letters and quickly ran its course–but Scott never forgot it. Ginevra became the inspiration for Isabelle Borgé in This Side of Paradise and the model for Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby. Scott also wrote short stories inspired by her–including “Babes in the Woods” and “Winter Dreams,” which, along with Ginevra’s own story featuring Scott are reprinted in this volume. With access to Ginevra’s personal diary, love letters, photographs, and Scott’s own scrapbook, West tells the beguiling story of youthful passion that shaped Scott Fitzgerald’s life as a writer.
For Scott and Ginevra, “the perfect hour” was private code for a fleeting time they almost shared and then yearned after for the rest of their lives. Now West brings that perfect hour back to life in all its freshness, delicacy, and poignant brevity.
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給故事打五星,給敘述減一星。菲茨傑拉德心裏的姞內婭像黃金女郎黛西,但姞內婭心裏的perfect hour卻是好多年以後,她結婚瞭,擁有除瞭愛以外的任何東西,在一個失落的下午敲開已經成名的菲茨傑拉德的傢門,但他卻早就已經忘記她。我太喜歡菲茨傑拉德瞭。
評分Honestly and truly, it would be wonderful to have that perfect hour, sometime, someday and somewhere.(Ginevra to Scott, January 31,1916)
評分還行,那個時候菲茨傑拉德就是個純潔的小白臉
評分給故事打五星,給敘述減一星。菲茨傑拉德心裏的姞內婭像黃金女郎黛西,但姞內婭心裏的perfect hour卻是好多年以後,她結婚瞭,擁有除瞭愛以外的任何東西,在一個失落的下午敲開已經成名的菲茨傑拉德的傢門,但他卻早就已經忘記她。我太喜歡菲茨傑拉德瞭。
評分Honestly and truly, it would be wonderful to have that perfect hour, sometime, someday and somewhere.(Ginevra to Scott, January 31,1916)
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