Gatsby's Girl

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Preston, Caroline 저자(글)

Houghton Mifflin · 2007년 05월 23일

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CAROLINE PRESTON is a graduate of Dartmouth College and earned her master's degree in American civilization at Brown University. She has worked as a manuscript librarian, both at the Houghton Library at Harvard and the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. She is the author of two previous novels, Jackie by Josie (a New York Times Notable Book of the Year) and Lucy Crocker 2.0. She is married to the writer Christopher Tilghman, and they live with their three sons in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Before he wrote some of the twentieth centurys greatest fiction, before he married Zelda, F. Scott Fitzgerald loved Ginevra, a fickle, young, Chicago socialite he met during a winter break from Princeton. After an ardent correspondence and one ill-fated visit, Ginevra threw over the soon-to-be-famous novelist with "supreme boredom and indifference," as Fitzgerald would later write. The rest is literary history: Ginevra would be the model for many of Fitzgeralds coolly fascinating but unattainable heroines, including Isabelle in This Side of Paradise and the elusive object of Gatsbys unrequited love, Daisy Buchanan.In this entertaining and moving novel, Caroline Preston imagines what life might have been like for Fitzgeralds first love, following Ginevra from her gilded youth as the daughter of a tycoon and through a disillusioned marriage and motherhood.
Before he wrote some of the twentieth century's greatest fiction, before he married Zelda, F. Scott Fitzgerald loved Ginevra, a fickle young Chicago socialite he met during the winter break from Princeton. But Ginevra threw over the soon-to-be-famous novelist, and the rest is literary history. Ginevra would be the model for many of Fitzgerald's coolly fascinating but unattainable heroines, including the elusive object of Jay Gatsby's unrequited love, Daisy Buchanan. In this captivating and moving novel, Caroline Preston imagines what life might have been like for Fitzgerald's first love, following Ginevra from her gilded youth as the daughter of a tycoon through disillusioned marriage and motherhood. An engrossing fictional portrait, Gatsby's Girl deftly explores the relationship between a famous author and his muse.
Before he wrote some of the twentieth century's greatest fiction, before he married Zelda, F. Scott Fitzgerald loved Ginevra, a fickle young Chicago socialite he met during the winter break from Princeton. But Ginevra threw over the soon-to-be-famous novelist, and the rest is literary history. Ginevra would be the model for many of Fitzgerald's coolly fascinating but unattainable heroines, including the elusive object of Jay Gatsby's unrequited love, Daisy Buchanan. In this captivating and moving novel, Caroline Preston imagines what life might have been like for Fitzgerald's first love, following Ginevra from her gilded youth as the daughter of a tycoon through disillusioned marriage and motherhood. An engrossing fictional portrait, Gatsby's Girl deftly explores the relationship between a famous author and his muse.
"A fascinating rendering of the tragedy that was Fitzgerald's life...Highly recommended."
"A wonderfully elegiac novel that evokes the tenor and times of the 'Lost Generation'...marvelous."
"A wonderfully elegiac novel that evokes the tenor and times of the 'Lost Generation' . . . marvelous." --Dorman T. Shindler
"Compelling and perfectly evoked....This is a wonderful book." --Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler's Wife
"Compelling . . . a sad, beautiful, erotically charged picture." --Dana Kletter
"Fascinating...tantalizing...An entirely pleasurable tour-de-force." --Anita Shreve, author of The Pilot's Wife
"Gatsby's Girl is an extraordinary book, as elegaic and evocative as much of Fitzgerald's own work." --Kevin Baker, author of Dreamland, Paradise Alley and Strivers Row
"Imaginative reconstruction . . . Thoroughly researched and persuasively written, this novel rings true." --Barbara Fisher
Preston deftly evokes the entire arc of Ginevras story--from her first romantic meeting with F. Scott Fitzgerald to the second act of her sometimes charmed, sometimes troubled life. An affecting story of two people--one world famous, one a private person known only through her portrayals in fiction.

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저자(글) Preston, Caroline

CAROLINE PRESTON is a graduate of Dartmouth College and earned her master's degree in American civilization at Brown University. She has worked as a manuscript librarian, both at the Houghton Library at Harvard and the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. She is the author of two previous novels, Jackie by Josie (a New York Times Notable Book of the Year) and Lucy Crocker 2.0. She is married to the writer Christopher Tilghman, and they live with their three sons in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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ISBN	9780618872619 ( 0618872612 )
발행(출시)일자	2007년 05월 23일
쪽수	336쪽
크기	137 * 213 * 23 mm / 431 g
총권수	1권
언어	영어