Lost City

F. Scott Fitzgerald left behind a substantial body of work on New York, yet his city remains in our time terra incognita, talked about but rarely well met. Lost City takes on this important and under-examined, indeed misunderstood and misrepresented, aspect of Fitzgerald's writing. The author shows that Fitzgerald's geography amounts to more than the Plaza Hotel and a wasteland. His writing depicts a variety of districts and neighborhoods. His is not the New York of the Roaring Twenties. Locating Fitzgerald's Chapter 1 “The Manhattan of the Moment”; Chapter 2 Symbols of New York; Chapter 3 A Day in the History of the City; Chapter 4 Scenes from a “Carnival by the Sea”; Chapter 5 “A Picture of New York Life”; Chapter 6 Good Family, Old Money, Elite Society; Chapter 7 Saying Goodbye to the Road Not Taken; afterword Afterword: Beginnings, Not Endings;