The Complete Pat Hobby Stories: 17 short stories about a hack screenwriter in Hollywood

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Pat Hobby Stories" contains 17 short stories in one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.

Written between 1939 and 1940, when F. Scott Fitzgerald was working for Universal Studios, the seventeen Pat Hobby stories were first published in Esquire magazine and present a bitterly humorous portrait of a once-successful writer who becomes a forgotten hack on a Hollywood lot.

Table of Contents:

Pat Hobby's Christmas Wish.

A Man in the Way.

"Boil Some Water-Lots of It".

Teamed with Genius.

Pat Hobby and Orson Welles.

Pat Hobby's Secret.

Pat Hobby, Putative Father.

The Homes of the Stars.

Pat Hobby Does His Bit.

Pat Hobby's Preview.

No Harm Trying.

A Patriotic Short.

On the Trail of Pat Hobby.

Fun in an Artist's Studio.

Two Old-Timers.

Mightier Than the Sword.

Pat Hobby's College Days.

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.

Auteur
Born in London and educated at Eton, where his father's best friend was Ivor Montagu's nephew, Nicholas Griffin is the author of four novels and one non-fiction book, as well as having written for various newspapers including The Times and the Financial Times. He now lives in Miami with his family and was a Term Member on the Council on Foreign Relations.

Résumé
It was one of the most significant developments of the post-war era: China finally abandoning its close relationship with the Soviet Union to begin detente with the USA. Astonishingly, the man who helped make it happen was a British aristocrat, Ivor Montagu, a Soviet spy who knew Stalin and dined with Trotsky. Even more remarkably, the means to this rapprochement was table tennis, a sport loved by both Chairman Mao and Montagu. For years, Montagu had lived a dual life, working to spread communism and also table tennis around the world. Surprisingly, the two strands of his career would come together in an event of global significance.

Nicholas Griffin weaves a compelling story to reveal the background to the famous occasion in 1971, when the USA's Glenn Cowan, a 19-year-old hippie, befriended China's world champion Zhuang Zedong, who was imprisoned during the Cultural Revolution. Within days, the Americans would be playing the Chinese in front of 18,000 fans in Beijing, with the whole world watching. It was the beginning of a thaw in Sino-US relations that forced the Soviets into a crippling arms race that acted as a catalyst to pressuring them into errors that would draw the Cold War to an end. Sometimes sport truly can have the biggest consequences.