WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY GEOFF DYERThe world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsby's party.But Gatsby stands apart from the crowd,isolated by a secret longing. In between sips of champagne his guests speculate about their mysterious host. Some say he's a bootlegger. Others swear he was a German spy during the war. They lean in and whisper'he killed a man once'. Just where is Gatsby from and what is the obsession that drives himThis edition of The Great Gatsby is the resultof a unique collaboration between Tiffany & Co. and Vintage Classics. It is based on designs in the Tiffany &Co. archives from the twenties when F. Scott Fitzgerald's talent,beauty and notorious lifestyle made him one of best known writers of the Jazz Age.
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9780099577720Number of pages: 256Weight: 357 gDimensions: 205 x 140 x 25 mm
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The Great Gatsby remains not just one of the greatest works of American literature,but a timeless evocation of the allure,corruption and carelessness of wealth...a gilded society intoxicated by wealth,dancing its way into the Great Depression.Gatsby is a connoisseur's guide to the glamour and glitter of the Jazz Age,but it's also a nearly prophetic glimpse into the world to come. Writing at the height of the boom,in the midst of the Roaring Twenties,Fitzgerald detected the ephemerality,fakery and corruption always lurking at the heart of the great American success story... A haunting meditation on aspiration,disillusionment,romantic love - and a blistering exposé of the materialism,duplicity,and sexual politics driving what Fitzgerald calls America's true "business": "the service of a vast,vulgar,and meretricious beauty"It is a marvellously suggestive novel...a parable of modern America,and by extension of modern lifeThe first and greatest modern novel,it has beautiful women,lavish parties,romance,betrayal and murder woven together in an intricately structured plot. A prescient comment on the dying days of a gilded age that is brilliant entertainment with a very eloquent insightHis masterpiece,an elegy for the American Dream,the greatest lost cause of them all
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