This Side of Paradise

Amory Blaine, a wealthy Midwestern boy set on rejecting his upbringing, turns his ambitions to the elite society of the east coast. But as Blaine progresses through a sequence of romantic attachments, the life he longs for continues to elude him.

Fitzgerald's debut novel examines the way in which greed, money, and the lust for power can corrupt life, love, and human relationships.