Studies in Short Fiction, March 22nd, 1993
Bryant Mangum's A Fortune Yet takes up the ambitious task of analyzing all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's more than 150 short stories and thus serves as a kind of companion volume to Alice Hall Petry's excellent work, Fitzgerald's Craft of Short Fiction, which limits itself to describing only those stories that Fitzgerald collected into volumes during his lifetime. Mangum deals capably with this mass of material and relates it soundly and sensibly to the novels, and in the end he proves his claim that Fitzgerald's short stories "functioned as moneymakers, as proving ground for his ideas, as worksh...
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