The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button: Short Story

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Jan. 2013 · Verkauft von HarperCollins Canada

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When Benjamin Button was born he had the appearance of seventy-year-old man, and he was already able to speak.

Stunned, his parents nevertheless try to raise him as they would any normal baby. By the time Benjamin is twelve, his parents realize their son is aging backwards, getting younger every day.

“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” was adapted for film in 2008, starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett.

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Autoren-Profil

F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, in 1896, attended Princeton University in 1913, and published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920. That same year he married Zelda Sayre, and he quickly became a central figure in the American expatriate circle in Paris that included Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway. He died of a heart attack in 1940 at the age of forty-four.