This is the story of Amory Blaine, the only child of a couple wealthy, beautiful as an angel with auburn mane and huge emerald green eyes, born at the end of the nineteenth and living a royal childhood preserved kid gods, worshiped by a mother -Beatrice- high in Europe, and of course lavish spender -the father is virtually absent from the book-Amory wants to be admired by all, wants to be charmed, it is egotistical and romantic, but it is unique tent be a gentleman of reputation submitted to the conventions, chic and high school years at Princeton, world war where he will do his duty, passion undermined by his father -his of fortune was rotten investments, his mother spent almost everything -... more he advances in age, the more it moves away from the Edenic childhood (the title of the new edition of the galaxy is more correct "Far from Heaven"), the more literally disintegrates if plucks without losing its racy elegance, clear intelligence, charm indestructible ... published in 1920, first novel Fitzgerald, a master stroke, reckless and alcoholic America before the First World War and that of the prohibition and a new moral order takes over, and child carrying a style of humor to spare makes this wonderfully divine Amory between vanity and aristocratic dereliction ... I love.
"(...) However, a few hours after leaving the country for warmer climes with Beatrice, his appendix burst, probably because he was too eat at the bed, and after a series of frantic sent telegrams Europe and America, the biggest surprise of the other passengers, the ship slowly turned around and went the way from New York to deposit Amory on the pier. You will agree that if it is not really life, it ' is still a wonderful life. "
"Sometimes I think that I would have liked to be an Englishman. Life in America is so bland, stupid and healthy."
