THE LAST TYCOONF. Scott Fitzgerald Scrlbner ($2.75).
When Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, aged 44, died of heart disease in Hollywood last winter (TIME, Jan. 27), he left part of a novel which he had been pondering for three years, and a voluminous pile of notes on the unwritten part of the story. There was some talk, then, of having another writer complete the novel from the notes. But Critic Edmund Wilson, friend of Fitzgerald and his "intellectual conscience," chose another way to get this truncated work before the public.
The Last Tycoon contains 128 pages of completed manuscript, covering a little more than...
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