F. Scott Fitzgerald 
The Cruise of the Rolling Junk 

In an early series of journalistic pieces for an American magazine, Motor, F. Scott Fitzgerald described a journey he took with his wife Zelda from Connecticut to Alabama in a clapped-out automobile which he called the ‘Rolling Junk’. It is a piece of writing whose style, in free-ranging alternation of fact and fiction, has been compared with Jerome K. Jerome’s Three Men in a Boat. This book collects together the articles as one text, illustrated with the original illustrations of Fitzgerald, Zelda and the ‘Junk’. It features a foreword by acclaimed American travel writer Paul Theroux and a critical introduction by Julian Evans, who has written and broadcast about Fitzgerald’s life and work for the Guardian and BBC Radio 3, among others.

Over de auteur

Paul Theroux is an American novelist and travel writer. Born in Massachusetts, he has lived in Malawi, Uganda, Singapore and Britain, and now divides his time between Cape Cod and Hawaii. Since crossing Asia for The Great Railway Bazaar (1975), his journeys have included a circuitous tour of China for Riding the Iron Rooster (1988) and a journey from Cairo to Cape Town for Dark Star Safari (2002). His novels include The Mosquito Coast (1981), which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was adapted for film. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Royal Geographical Society.