This Side of Paradise

Amory Blaine is an intelligent young man from Minnesota, who believes that his life will be full of promise. A poet and lover at heart, his life is derailed with his deployment as a soldier in World War I. When he returns, he begins a career in advertising, but is disenchanted with the work, feelings that it does not let his creativity run free the way it should.

The novel follows Amory's life and series of failed romances as he contends with living in the aftermath of a global war. He ends ...