This Side of Paradise

Amory Blaine is handsome, privileged and restless, raised for greatness and determined to claim it. Moving through the elite campuses of Princeton and the glittering salons of post-World War I America, he meets heartbreak and disillusionment as the pull of status and success begins to lose its shine. Fitzgerald's debut captures a generation caught between old-world values and new-world desires, and remains a vivid exploration of identity, love and the true cost of ambition.