The Cruise of the Rolling Junk

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Introduction by Julian Evans

Foreword by Paul Theroux

In an early series of journalistic pieces for an American magazine, Motor, F. Scott Fitzgerald described a journey he took with his wife Zelda from Connecticut to Alabama in a clapped-out automobile which he called the ‘Rolling Junk’. It is a piece
of writing whose style, in free-ranging alternation of fact and fiction, has been compared with Jerome K. Jerome’s Three Men in a Boat.

This book collects together the articles as one text, illustrated with the original illustrations of Fitzgerald, Zelda and the ‘Junk’. It features a foreword by acclaimed American travel writer Paul Theroux and a critical introduction by Julian Evans, who has written and broadcast about Fitzgerald’s life and work for the Guardian and BBC Radio 3, among others.

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