The third star is for the valuable reading suggestions. ( )

I loved this. When they met, Graham was very self-conscious about the holes in her spotty education and FSF took it upon himself to design a reading curriculum just for her which they followed together until his death about two years later.

A wonderful testament to the power of reading. the afterword by Graham's daughter is especially poignant. ( )

It is a sad fact that whenever someone famous dies those who are tangential to their lives will write something to make money off the corpse, and in the case of Sheilah Graham, she managed to do it twice, first with Beloved Infidel which was made into a mawkish movie in 1959 and then again with this book in 1967.

In this book we have not only the ugly scenes of FItzgerald in his final stages of alcoholism,but also the story of his playing the little professor, trying to give Graham some measure of literary intelligence. I'm not sure which is the most pathetic: Fitzgerald's obsessive reading lists and explanatory notes or Grahams equally pathetic feelings of gratitude for the attention of a once famous, but now washed up author.

For truly obsessed Fitzgerald fans (of which I am one) only. ( )

Rated: D ( )