Unique collection of short stories
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.
| ISBN: | 9781847493859 |
| Publication date: | 19th November 2014 |
| Author: | F Scott Fitzgerald |
| Publisher: | Alma Classics an imprint of Alma Books COMMIS |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 184 pages |
| Series: | The F. Scott Fitzgerald Collection |
| Genres: |
Classic fiction: general and literary Shorter Reads |
Unique collection of short stories
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.
The Pat Hobby Stories features in the following genres: Classic fiction: general and literary, Shorter Reads
The Pat Hobby Stories is available in Book, Ebook, Paperback
The Pat Hobby Stories was written by F Scott Fitzgerald and published by Alma Classics an imprint of Alma Books COMMIS
The Pat Hobby Stories has 184 pages
Yes it is part of The F. Scott Fitzgerald Collection series
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