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Pervyy roman Fitsdzheralda, prinesshiy emu literaturnuyu slavu.Kniga, stavshaya manifestom dlya amerikanskoy molodezhi "epokhi dzhaza".Vse molodye lyudi odinakovy. Oni uvereny, chto ikh zhdet blestyashchee budushchee i ves mir prinadlezhit imenno im.Tak schital i ambitsioznyy Emori Bleyn poka ne proshel surovuyu shkolu Pervoy mirovoy voyny. Ego istoriya sudba tselogo pokoleniya, dlya kotorogo "vse bogi umerli, vse voyny otgremeli, vsyakaya vera podorvana". Teper, posle mnozhestva poter, verenitsy neudach i gorkikh razocharovaniy on zhadno khochet tolko odnogo razvlekatsya i naslazhdatsya kazhdym momentom. No kakova istinnaya tsennost zhizni "po etu storonu raya"?