The first novel with autobiographical features by the great Fitzgerald. A book that became a manifesto for American youth of the “jazz era.” These young men and women have no ideals left, they trust only themselves. They greedily want to have fun, to enjoy life, the fragility of which they have already realized. At first glance, Fitzgerald's heroes can be considered empty and frivolous. But in essence, the fate of these “rebels without a cause,” seeking new ideas about friendship and rejecting the philistinism and hypocrisy of the “fathers,” is deeply tragic. Their rebellion is doomed - and only they themselves do not yet realize it...