The Love of The Last Tycoon
The Love of The Last Tycoon is an unfinished novel written Fitzgerald left incomplete before his death about a studio executive Monroe Stahr and later adapted into The Last Tycoon (film) starring Robert De Niro. Stahr is living for his job, focusing on nothing else but work, and is now suffering from a heart condition. The point of view of this novel is told through Cecelia Brady, the daughter of one of Stahr’s fellow executives. She flirts him, and wants to start some kind of love affair, but he is too wrapped up in his work to even try to think of her in romantic fashion.
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