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How The Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures
Little Brown & Company
September 2014
On Sale: September 9, 2014
ISBN: 0316230073
EAN: 9780316230070
Kindle: B00HQ2MXP0
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Non-Fiction
The "Fresh Air" book critic investigates the
enduring power of The Great Gatsby -- "The Great
American Novel we all think we've read, but really
haven't."
Conceived nearly a century ago by
a man who died believing himself a failure, it's now a
revered classic and a rite of passage in the reading lives
of millions. But how well do we really know The Great
Gatsby? As Maureen Corrigan, Gatsby lover
extraordinaire, points out, while Fitzgerald's masterpiece
may be one of the most popular novels in America, many of us
first read it when we were too young to fully comprehend its
power.
Offering a fresh perspective on what makes
Gatsby great-and utterly unusual-So We Read On
takes us into archives, high school classrooms, and even out
onto the Long Island Sound to explore the novel's hidden
depths, a journey whose revelations include
Gatsby's surprising debt to hard-boiled crime
fiction, its rocky path to recognition as a "classic," and
its profound commentaries on the national themes of race,
class, and gender.
With rigor, wit, and infectious
enthusiasm, Corrigan inspires us to re-experience the
greatness of Gatsby and cuts to the heart of why we
are, as a culture, "borne back ceaselessly" into its thrall.
Along the way, she spins a new and fascinating story of her own.
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