F. Scott Fitzgerald
Although this novella stands out from his body of work in that itâ€™s a playful yet sinister fairy tale, it brilliantly fuses F. Scott Fitzgeraldâ€™s ongoing lush fantasies about the extremes of wealth with his much more somber understanding of what underpins it.Â  Loosely inspired by a summer he spent as a teenager working on a ranch in Montana,Â ,The Diamond as Big as the Ritz,Â is Fitzgeraldâ€™s hallucinatory paean to the American West and all its promises.,Itâ€™s the story of John T. Unger, a young Southerner who goes to Montana for summer vacation with a wealthy college classmate. But the classmateâ€™s family proves to be much more than simply wealthy: They own a mountain made entirely of one solid diamond. And theyâ€™ve gone to dreadful lengths to conceal their secret â€¦ meaning John could be in danger.,But the family also has a daughter, lovely Kismine, and with her help, John may yet escape the fate her family has meted out to all their other guests so far â€¦
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The Diamond as Big as the Ritz