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Fitzgerald, F. Scott
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1,500 - 2,500 USD
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Description
- ink and paper
Typescript for the short story "Thank You for the Light" n.p., 1936, 5 pages (11 1/8 x 8 1/2 in.; 283 x 216 mm). A few light, stray pencil marks to first page.
recently published in the new yorker after its initial rejection over 70 years ago. A short vignette on a travelling corset saleswoman who depends on smoking to relax her nerves, in spite of the suggestion in the tale that the habit seems to be banned. In their original rejection the editors described the story as "... so curious and so unlike the kind of thing we associate with him and really too fantastic.”
recently published in the new yorker after its initial rejection over 70 years ago. A short vignette on a travelling corset saleswoman who depends on smoking to relax her nerves, in spite of the suggestion in the tale that the habit seems to be banned. In their original rejection the editors described the story as "... so curious and so unlike the kind of thing we associate with him and really too fantastic.”
Literature
Tate, F. Scott Fitzgerald from A to Z, p. 261