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“The Beautiful and Damned,” F. Scott Fitzgerald’s second novel, was published in 1922 and takes place at the dawn of the Jazz Age. The story follows the excesses of an artist and his wife. Where is the book set?
- A Chicago
- B New Orleans
- C New York
- D Boston
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From Louise Maunsell Field’s 1922 review in The Times:
Most of the scenes are laid either in New York or in the gray house, not far from the Post Road, Anthony and Gloria rented a few months after their marriage. ... Gloria did have one brief but violent reaction of disgust, but it was quickly over and “parties” of this kind were numerous, both in the country and in the New York apartment, where “there was the odor of tobacco always — both of them smoked incessantly. ... Added to this was the wretched aura of stale wine, with its inevitable suggestion of beauty gone foul and revelry remembered in disgust.”