《帕特•霍比系列故事》生动地描述了好莱坞及其政治和等级制度。帕特•霍比是好莱坞的一名蹩脚编剧，自默片时代结束后就落魄了。他成天在电影公司晃荡，想方设法获得更多工作，还想让自己的名字出现在电影屏幕上。比如他曾逼自己的秘书给他提供材料来勒索电影公司的一位负责人。他对自己的缺点浑然不知，自负之情溢于言表，这让他受到的屈辱越来越多，事业和爱情都遭受挫折。这些故事来源于菲茨杰拉德自己作为编剧的苦难经历，首次在《时尚先生》杂志上刊登。

包含：《帕特•霍比的圣诞愿望》、《一个碍事的人》、《烧点水，多烧点》、《与天才合作》、《帕特•霍比与奥森•威尔斯》、《帕特•霍比的秘密》、《指认父亲》、《明星私宅一日游》、《帕特•霍比的试映会》、《试试无妨》、《爱国短片》、《追踪帕特》、《画室的乐趣》、《两个老家伙》、《强于利剑》、《帕特•霍比的大学时代》。

Part of Alma Classics Fitzgerald collection, The Pat Hobby Stories provide a vivid account of Hollywood and its politics and hierarchies. A Hollywood hack who has fallen on hard times since the end of the Silent Era, Pat Hobby spends his time hanging out in the studio lot attempting to devise schemes - such as pressing his secretary for blackmail material against a studio executive - to get more work and earn on-screen credits. Oblivious to his own shortcomings and filled with feelings of self-importance, he embarks on a course towards ever-

increasing humiliation, suffering setbacks on both the professional and romantic fronts

. A vivid account of Hollywood and its politics and hierarchies, these stories - which draw from Fitzgerald's own travails as a screenwriter - were first printed in Esquire, although they were written with a view to being published as a cohesive volume.

Contains: 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.