The Last Tycoon

A novel of the glittering decadence of Hollywood's heyday, this was Fitzgerald's last work and he died without completing it.

The novel's tragic tycoon hero is Stahr, and, caught in the crossfire of his own effortless cynicism and his silent, secret vulnerability, he inhabits a world dominated by business, alcohol and promiscuity.

If there is a moral or social necessity to film-making in this West Coast never-never land, Stahr does not always believe in it. And if there is love, he does not always see it.