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- Published: 30 March 2021
- ISBN: 9780593133552
- Imprint: Random House US Group
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 192
- RRP: $38.00
The Great Gatsby
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- Published: 30 March 2021
- ISBN: 9780593133552
- Imprint: Random House US Group
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 192
- RRP: $38.00
"Gatsby's magic emanates not only from its powerhouse poetic style -- in which ordinary American language becomes unearthly -- but from the authority with which it nails who we want to be as Americans. Not who we are; who we want to be. It's that wanting that runs through every page of Gatsby, making it our Greatest American Novel. But it's also our easiest Great American Novel to underrate: too short; too tempting to misread as just a love story gone wrong; too mired in the Roaring Twenties and all that jazz." -- Maureen Corrigan, So We Read On: How The Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures