A mysterious woman stands and smiles at Monroe Stahr, the last of the great Hollywood princes. Enchanted by one another, they begin a passionate but hopeless love affair. The novel's tragic tycoon hero is caught in the crossfire of his own cynicism and vulnerability he inhabits a world dominated by business, alcohol and promiscuity. This is a novel of the glittering decades of Hollywood's heyday and the last novel to be written by F. Scott Fitzgerald.