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The Pat Hobby Stories

AuthorF Scott Fitzgerald

NarratorKerry Shale

Duration3h

CategoriesAdult Fiction, Humour and Comedy

PublisherCSA Word

VersionAbridged

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Written for Esquire magazine late in Fitzgerald's career, 'The Pat Hobby Stories' are a bittersweet, humorous recollection of a down-and-out Hollywood screenwriter trying to break back into show business, whose career has started to flag since the emergence of 'upstarts' such as Orson Welles.

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