{"product_id":"boats-against-the-current-centennial-richard-webb-9781632260970","title":"Boats Against the Current (Centennial Edition): The Honeymoon Summer of Scott and Zelda: Westport, Connecticut 1920","description":"NEW CENTENNIAL EDITION FOR 2020 \u003cp\u003e Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald honeymooned for five months in the summer of 1920 in a modest gray house in Westport, Connecticut. It was an experience that had a more profound impact on both of their collective works than any other place they lived. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e It was, for Scott and Zelda, their honeymoon. Having just gotten married and after being kicked out of some of New York city's finest hotels, they were, for the first time, in their very own place, albeit for only five months. It was a time that Scott Fitzgerald called \"the happiest year since I was eighteen.\"He had, after all, just achieved success with his first novel, \u003ci\u003eThis Side of Paradise, \u003c\/i\u003e and was suddenly awash with money. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Fitzgeralds lived a wild life of drinking, driving and endless partying while living in suburban Connecticut. As it happens, living near the beach, they were neighbors to a larger-than-life reclusive multi-millionaire, F.E. Lewis. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Historian Richard Webb grew up in Westport a few doors down the street from where the Fitzgeralds had lived some forty years earlier. Fascinated with the Fitzgeralds, when Webb learned that author Barbara Probst Solomon, who grew up across the river from the F.E. Lewis estate, proposed in the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e that Westport was the real setting for Fitzgerald's \u003ci\u003eGreat Gatsby, \u003c\/i\u003e he was stirred to actively researching her claim. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eBoats Against the Current\u003c\/i\u003e tells the real story behind the famous novel and its tragic hero, debunking the long-held belief that the book was solely inspired by the Fitzgerald's time in Great Neck, across the Sound in Long Island, and lays out enough information about the fascinating Mr. Lewis that it is difficult not to believe that author Webb has located the true inspiration for one of the most captivating and iconic characters in American literature, the great Gatsby himself. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Illustrated with a fantastic array of never-before-seen photos from the Lewis family, as well as the scrapbooks of the Fitzgeralds, period newspaper clippings, and a myriad of compelling stories about Scott, Zelda and their fantastically wealthy neighbor. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A companion book to the documentary \u003ci\u003eGatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story, Boats Against the Current\u003c\/i\u003e also recounts Webb's own journey of making the film with fellow Westporter and filmmaker, Robert Steven Williams. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Great Gatsby\u003c\/i\u003e may be one of America's essential novels. \u003ci\u003eBoats Against the Current\u003c\/i\u003e is an essential document for anyone who has read the book and wondered at the fantastical world whose story it tells.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard Webb\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1632260972\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781632260970\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Prospecta Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/26\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 12.50w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/0001\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Richard Webb","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48449814692095,"sku":"9781632260970","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c19da26e-3aa0-4575-a6d2-d90857e84b7f.jpg?v=1777265022","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/boats-against-the-current-centennial-richard-webb-9781632260970","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}