Amory Blaine thought he was exceedingly handsome. He was.

          As a snappily dressed young egotist, he relied on his superior mentality and – perhaps more dangerous – granted himself magnetism, personality and poise, power over men, and a gift of fascinating all women.

          In a series of brilliant literary cameos on the adolescence and youth of Amory Blaine, Scott Fitzgerald was to define the Jazz Age for a whole generation of readers. Crystallizing the morals, manners and aspirations of his contemporaries at Princeton, This Side of Paradise rocketed its young author to success. Fame, money and marriage followed, before the pace proved fatal…..