Hot and Cold Blood

"...she went on brokenly, 'I need you. I need your strength and your health and your arms around me. And if you-if you just give it to every one, it's spread so thin when it reaches me-'"

- Jacqueline Mathers, Hot & Cold Blood, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, (1926)

Hot & Cold Blood (1926) was originally published in a collection of short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald entitled All the Sad Young Men (1926). Written when Fitzgerald and his socialite wife, Zelda, were experiencing financial trouble, the story focuses on main characters Jim and Jacqueline Mathers. The couple's marital discord escalates with Jim's foolhardy penchant for lending money and Jacqueline's intolerance of his missteps. This classic makes a great addition to the personal library of those who love Fitzgerald and fiction of the early twentieth century.