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"The Crack-Up"

F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1936

Fitzgerald's mid-career breakdown, written with ruined elegance. "In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning." The confessional essay before it was a genre. More honest than any of his fiction.

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