In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
An edition of The Great Gatsby
(1920)
The Great Gatsby
Bantam Edition, 6th printing; Movie Tie-In
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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He was in love with the Golden Girl of a gilded era.
He was Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire who gave wild and lavish parties attended by strangers.
"In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars."
She was Daisy Buchanan, a young rich beauty with bright eyes and a passionate mouth.
"High in a white palace, the kings daughter, the golden girl. Even her voice was full of money."
A great novel of a glittering era, of amazing richness and scope, this is the most dazzling fiction we possess of the jazz age's reckless revels.
A fable of the roaring twenties that will survive as a legend.
--back cover
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The Great Gatsby
1978-03, Bantam Books
Mass Market Paperback
in English
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Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate – a marvelous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period – which reveals a hero like no other – one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts.
"There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life.... It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again."
It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous entertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan – a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe.
It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism.
--first edition jacket
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