Gatsby's Girl
by Preston, Caroline
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- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0618872612
- ISBN 13
- 9780618872619
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Synopsis
Just as Jay Gatsby was haunted by Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fizgerald was haunted by his own great first love a Chicago socialite named Ginevra. Alluring, capricious, and ultimately unavailable, she would become his first muse, the inspiration for such timeless characters as Gatsby's Daisy and Isabelle Borge in This Side of Paradise. Caroline Preston's astute perceptions of her characters and the cultural landscapes they inhabit have earned her work comparisons to to that of Anne Tyler, Alison Lurie, and Diane Johnson. Now, in this richly imagined and ambitious novel, Preston deftly evokes the entire sweep of Ginevra's life from her first meeting with Scott to the second act of her sometimes charmed, sometimes troubled life. Ginevra was sixteen, a rich man’s daughter who had been told she was pretty far too often for her own good. Scott was nineteen, a poor boy full of ambition. They met at a country club dance in St. Paul, Minnesota, in January 1916. For almost a year they wrote each other letters so long, breathless, and yearning that they often required more than one envelope. But despite their intense epistolary romance, the relationship wouldn’t last. After throwing him over with what he deemed supreme boredom and indifference,” she impulsively married a handsome aviator from the right society background. Ruminating over what might have been had she picked the writer instead of the flier, she furtively reads the now famous Fitzgerald’s work. When she sees herself much to her surprise in his characters, it’s not just as the spoiled debutante he’d known; he’s also uncannily predicted the woman she’s become, cracks and all. An affecting story of two people, one famous, one known only through her portrayals in enduring works of fiction, Gatsby’s Girl is a tremendously entertaining and moving novel about the powerful forces of first love, memory, and art.
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- Bookseller
- Better World Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6272978-6
- Title
- Gatsby's Girl
- Author
- Preston, Caroline
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Trade Paper
- ISBN 10
- 0618872612
- ISBN 13
- 9780618872619
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Place of Publication
- Wilmington, Massachusetts, U.s.a.
- This edition first published
- 2007-05-23
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