The curious case of Benjamin Button

Born as a seventy-year-old man in a Baltimore hospital in 1860, Benjamin Button enters the world bewildered and wizened. As his childhood friends grow older, he grows younger and more vigorous. His is a life out of joint with time itself-a strange, wondrous, and profoundly lonely journey.
Through this brilliantly conceived fable, F. Scott Fitzgerald, the poet laureate of the Jazz Age, masterfully inverts the American saga. He explores the fundamental truths of love, loss, and ambition from a...