ISBN: 160501656X

This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This booktable of contents linked to every story. ******************. The Pat Hobby Stories are a coll… More...

This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This booktable of contents linked to every story. ******************. The Pat Hobby Stories are a collection of 17 short stories written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, first published by Arnold Gingrich of Esquire magazine between January 1940 and May 1941, and later collected in one volume in 1962. The last installments in Esquire of The Pat Hobby Stories were published posthumously; Fitzgerald had died in 1940. Pat Hobby is a down-and-out screenwriter in Hollywood, once successful as "a good man for structure" during the silent age of cinema, but now reduced to an alcoholic hack hanging around the studio lot. Most stories find him broke and engaged in some ploy for money or a much-desired screen credit, but his antics usually backfire and end in further humiliation. Drawing on his own experiences as a writer in Hollywood, Scott Fitzgerald portrays Pat Hobby with (self-)mocking humor and nostalgia. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. . Fiction Fiction eBook, MobileReference.com<