The authorized text. Edited with notes by Matthew J. Bruccoli. F. Scott Fitzgerald died before he completed The Love of the Last Tycoon. This tale of the movie mogul Monroe Stahr and his later love after long losing his wife reflects the state of the story as Fitzgerald left it. Matthew J. Bruccoli arranged a collection of working notes by Fitzgerald and added some of his own thoughts as well. But the result it not a finished Fitzgerald work. While there is a semblance of a story, there are obvious jumps, breaks, and pauses. The plot seems to sputter along like an ancient jalopy, slowly jerking down long, monotonous dirt roads only to turn a corner and coast smoothly down a hill next to a lake, silently reflecting the beauty of surrounding snow-capped mountains. It might have been an excellent addition to Fitzgerald's portfolio, had he finished it. He didn't. From his working notes, one can surmise that Stahr was to eventually die in a plane crash in Oklahoma (or some other isolated area in the middle of America) during a trip to New York (151). This never occurs during the book. Even the ending of this published edition doesn't seem like an ending at all: "That's how the two weeks started that he and I went around together. It only took one of them of Louella to have us married" (129). One looking to satisfying a craving for another Fitzgerald masterpiece will not come away satisfied. One the other hand, as a glance into the process Fitzgerald used for writing a novel the book is fascinating. One can see from the notes the long process of writing a book includes changing the book, adding characters, removing characters, shortening and lengthening the book. One can understand that those pithy little sections that Fitzgerald liked to insert were sometimes composed independently with the idea of fashioning a context around them.