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The Beautiful and the Damned. This Side of Paradise

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The Beautiful and the Damned. This Side of Paradise
14.99 €
Beautiful and Doomed is a novel about a couple, Anthony and Gloria Patch, living the life in New York City while waiting for a huge inheritance. Dinners at expensive restaurants, endless parties with friends and lavish receptions - it would seem, what else can you dream of? But when the chances of getting rich become elusive, the brilliant couple has to face the harsh reality: everything must be paid for - sometimes at an unaffordable price ... "This Side of Paradise" - a manifesto of American youth "jazz age". All young people are the same. They are sure that they have a brilliant future ahead of them and the whole world belongs to them. So thought the ambitious Emory Blaine - until he went through the harsh school of the First World War. His story is the fate of an entire generation for whom "all gods are dead, all wars have died, all faith has been shattered". Now, after many losses, a string of failures and bitter disappointments, he greedily wants only one thing - to have fun and enjoy every moment. But what is the true value of life "this side of paradise"?
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