A Novel of First Love...
Houghton Mifflin
May 2006
Featuring: F. Scott Fitzgerald; Ginevra King
320 pages
ISBN: 0618537252
Hardcover
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She was two months past her sixteenth birthday, a rich man's
daughter who had been told she was pretty far too often for
her own good. He was nineteen years old, a poor boy full of
ambition. They met at a country club dance in St. Paul,
Minnesota, in January 1916.
Ginevra was F. Scott
Fitzgerald's first love, but despite their intense
epistolary romance, the relationship wouldn't last. After
throwing him over with what he deemed "supreme boredom and
indifference," she married a handsome young aviator from the
right background.
Caroline Preston deftly evokes the entire
arc of Ginevra's story from her first romantic meeting with
Scott to the second act of her sometimes charmed, sometimes
troubled life. Ginevra ruminates over what might have been
had she picked the writer instead of the aviator. Furtively
reading the now famous Fitzgerald's work, Ginevra sees
herself in his characters, and not just as the spoiled
debutante he'd known, but also uncannily predicting the
woman she has become--cracks and all.
An affecting story of
two people: one world famous, one a private person known
only through her portrayals in priceless works of fiction,
Gatsby's Girl is a tremendously entertaining yet moving
novel about the powerful forces of first love, memory, and art.
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