This Side of Paradise (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781727494259)

Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while. His father, an ineffectual, inarticulate man with a taste for Byron and a habit of drowsing over the Encyclopedia Britannica, grew wealthy at thirty through the death of two elder brothers, successful Chicago brokers, and in the first flush of feeling that the world was his, went to Bar Harbor and met Beatrice O'Hara. In consequence, Stephen Blaine handed down to posterity his height of just under six feet and his tendency to waver at crucial moments, these two abstractions appearing in his son Amory. For many years he hovered in the background of his family's life, an unassertive figure with a face half-obliterated by lifeless, silky hair, continually occupied in "taking care" of his wife, continually harassed by the idea that he didn't and couldn't understand her.

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
ISBN-10: 1727494253
ISBN-13: 9781727494259
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 09/24/2018
Pages: 268
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.56d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.2
Point Value: 14
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 106148 / This Side of Paradise