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Summary
F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished final novel, published posthumously in 1941, follows Monroe Stahr, a brilliant Hollywood producer based on Irving Thalberg, as he navigates studio politics, creative ambition, and a doomed love affair. The surviving fragment — about half of Fitzgerald's planned novel — is widely considered among his finest work and offers a sharp portrait of 1930s Hollywood as an industry and a state of mind.