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Pervyy roman Fitsdzheral'da, prinesshiy yemu literaturnuyu slavu. Kniga, stavshaya manifestom dlya amerikanskoy molodezhi "epokhi dzhaza". Vse molodyye lyudi odinakovy. Oni uvereny, chto ikh zhdet blestyashcheye budushcheye i ves' mir prinadlezhit imenno im. Tak schital i ambitsioznyy Emori Bleyn – poka ne proshel surovuyu shkolu Pervoy mirovoy voyny. Yego istoriya – sud'ba tselogo pokoleniya, dlya kotorogo "vse bogi umerli, vse voyny otgremeli, vsyakaya vera podorvana". Teper', posle mnozhestva poter', verenitsy neudach i gor'kikh razocharovaniy on zhadno khochet tol'ko odnogo – razvlekat'sya i naslazhdat'sya kazhdym momentom. No kakova istinnaya tsennost' zhizni "po etu storonu raya"?