A male ages backwards until the story fades into the lack of consciousness of babyhood. Benjamin is born a ready-made foul-mouth of 70. Twenty years later, he's kicked out of college due to appearing to be 50, but the funniest moment comes when Ben is already sixty in real years but looks 10, and the playmate of his own grandson! Little indication here that Fitzgerald would go on to produce one of America‘s finest novels, but its fun