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  • Author(s): Leithauser, Brad
  • Source:
    New York Times Book Review. 08/30/98, p27. 1p. 1 Color Photograph.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      FICTION writing techniques; AUTHORSHIP; FITZGERALD, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940
    • Abstract:
      Discusses F. Scott Fitzgerald's statement that `there are no second acts in American lives.' Evidence of the error of Fitzgerald's view, including re-election of a big-city United States mayor videotaped with a woman in a hotel room buying and consuming cocaine; Evidence of the shift in the national terrain and the transition to open-ended lives; Implications for bringing a story to a close.