The Four Seasons of Success, Signed by Budd Schulberg
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[Signed; Ex Libris Ed Limato] Schulberg, Budd. The Four Seasons of Success. First Edition. 1972. Book is in very good condition; dust jacket is in good condition—jacket shows discoloration, and the flaps are not so much price-clipped as price-torn. Book is warmly inscribed by the author, “For Arlene [Francis?] and Martin [Gabel?], Dear friends through all seasons, Budd.” It is also inscribed by the author’s wife, “—and Geraldine Brooks Schulberg.” It is also stamped, “From the Library of Edward F. Limato, Heather House.”
Budd Schulberg’s novel What Makes Sammy Run? is on nearly everyone’s list as one of the best novels about Hollywood. It was so good that it annoyed his studio mogul father’s friends, but it did not derail his career in film. He went on to write the Academy Award-winning screenplay for On the Waterfront. In this book, Schulberg weaves his personal experiences with the 20th Century’s literary greats into a theory about how they might bend the zeitgeist but eventually succumb to it, as we all must. The large section on F. Scott Fitzgerald is the most fascinating, because the two knew each other well, having worked on a screen play together. Fitzgerald filched sections of Schulberg’s life for The Last Tycoon, and after Fitzgerald’s death, Schulberg repaid the favor with The Disenchanted, a barely disguised, often comedic novel, about Schulberg’s experiences with Fitzgerald. Other writers profiled in this book include Sinclair Lewis and Nathanael West.
“As long as there is human exaggeration, myopia, hindsight, copycatting, and a constant shifting in the winds of fashion and opinion, writers will suffer, and succumb to or endure their Seasons of Success.”
--Budd Schulberg
Budd Schulberg’s novel What Makes Sammy Run? is on nearly everyone’s list as one of the best novels about Hollywood. It was so good that it annoyed his studio mogul father’s friends, but it did not derail his career in film. He went on to write the Academy Award-winning screenplay for On the Waterfront. In this book, Schulberg weaves his personal experiences with the 20th Century’s literary greats into a theory about how they might bend the zeitgeist but eventually succumb to it, as we all must. The large section on F. Scott Fitzgerald is the most fascinating, because the two knew each other well, having worked on a screen play together. Fitzgerald filched sections of Schulberg’s life for The Last Tycoon, and after Fitzgerald’s death, Schulberg repaid the favor with The Disenchanted, a barely disguised, often comedic novel, about Schulberg’s experiences with Fitzgerald. Other writers profiled in this book include Sinclair Lewis and Nathanael West.
“As long as there is human exaggeration, myopia, hindsight, copycatting, and a constant shifting in the winds of fashion and opinion, writers will suffer, and succumb to or endure their Seasons of Success.”
--Budd Schulberg
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