The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button: Short Story

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Overview

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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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781443423212
Publisher:	HarperCollins Canada
Publication date:	01/29/2013
Sold by:	HARPERCOLLINS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	25
File size:	199 KB

About the Author

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.

Date of Birth:

September 24, 1896

Date of Death:

December 21, 1940

Place of Birth:

St. Paul, Minnesota

Education:

Princeton University