"Evening in Byzantium" by Irwin Shaw

It is a story about Hollywood producer. All his life was penetrated with glory and success and at some point his just seemed fail. What make people who are surrounded by people who love them, people who admire them just stop to move. His last try, after few years of silence was his own work, his own play. But as always life made its own decision, his health cheated on him. He left all alone, his work gone to other people, his women went to other men, his children started their own life. And he just decided not to fight anymore for his life, author doesn't show us his death but we understand that this this will not take long time. This story, and time which described in it, has a lot of similar things with Fitzgerald's novels and especially with Great Gatsby.