The Beautiful and Damned (Collector's Edition) (Laminated Hardback with Jacket)

<h3><strong style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>~ Collector's Edition ~ Laminated Hardback with Jacket ~</strong></h3><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Their love is dazzling their parties endless and their future seemingly golden-but beneath the glittering surface cracks begin to form. Anthony Patch a wealthy heir-in-waiting and his enchanting wife Gloria indulge in the wild excesses of the Jazz Age convinced that fortune and youth will last forever. As ambition gives way to recklessness their once-perfect world teeters on the edge consumed by jealousy disillusionment and the slow decay of their grand dreams. Caught between love and self-destruction they chase a future that always seems just out of reach.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A vivid portrait of the Jazz Age </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Beautiful and Damned</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> captures the dazzling highs and devastating lows of a generation intoxicated by wealth and ambition. Through Anthony and Gloria Patch Fitzgerald explores the illusions of the American Dream revealing how privilege and excess can lead to self-destruction. The novel serves as both a glamorous spectacle and a sharp critique of the social elite foreshadowing the economic collapse that would soon follow. With its lyrical prose and haunting themes it remains a defining work of the Roaring Twenties offering a timeless reflection on love decadence and the fleeting nature of youth.</span></p>