Following up his successful 1920 debut This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald penned this devastating portrait of the excesses of the Jazz Age—a largely autobiographical depiction of a glamorous, reckless Manhattan couple and their downward spiral. Anthony Patch and Gloria Gibson are among the golden children of the 1920s. They marry and embark on a life of glittering parties and scandalous revelry, but when the money dries up, their marriage crumbles in spectacular fashion.