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Title Gatsby's Girl [electronic resource eBook].


Contents Front Cover -- Front Matter -- Acclaim for Caroline Preston and Gatsby's Girl -- Half Title -- Books By Caroline Preston -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Prologue -- Part One -- 1. St. Paul Girl -- 2. Bob Party -- 3. Letters -- 4. Nobody Home -- 5. Houseguest -- 6. Dismal Swamp -- 7. Pockmarked Moon -- 8. Luau -- 9. Poor Boys -- Part Two -- 10. Red Cross Cadet -- 11. The Triumph of Youth -- 12. Honeymoon in Key West -- 13. Who's Who and Why -- 14. Stork Scissors -- 15. House Party -- 16. The Professor -- 17. Shakespeare and Company -- Part Three -- 18. Century of Progress -- 19. Myrna -- 20. The Tutor -- 21. Matinee -- 22. The Crack-Up -- 23. The Wilshire Grill -- 24. Chronicler of the Lost Generation -- 25. Property of F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Epilogue -- Back Matter -- Historical Note -- Acknowledgments -- Reader's Guide -- About the Author -- For Discussion -- Further Reading -- A Conversation with Caroline Preston.
Summary Just as Jay Gatsby was haunted by Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fizgerald was haunted by his own great first love - a Chicago socialite named Ginevra. Alluring, capricious, and ultimately unavailable, she would become his first muse, the inspiration for such timeless characters as Gatsby's Daisy and Isabelle Borge in This Side of Paradise. Caroline Preston's astute perceptions of her characters and the cultural landscapes they inhabit have earned her work comparisons to to that of Anne Tyler, Alison Lurie, and Diane Johnson. Now, in this richly imagined and ambitious novel, Preston deftly evokes the entire sweep of Ginevra's life - from her first meeting with Scott to the second act of her sometimes charmed, sometimes troubled life. Ginevra was sixteen, a rich man's daughter who had been told she was pretty far too often for her own good. Scott was nineteen, a poor boy full of ambition. They met at a country club dance in St. Paul, Minnesota, in January 1916. For almost a year they wrote each other letters - so long, breathless, and yearning that they often required more than one envelope. But despite their intense epistolary romance, the relationship wouldn't last. After throwing him over with what he deemed "supreme boredom and indifference," she impulsively married a handsome aviator from the right society background. Ruminating over what might have been had she picked the writer instead of the flier, she furtively reads the now famous Fitzgerald's work. When she sees herself - much to her surprise - in his characters, it's not just as the spoiled debutante he'd known; he's also uncannily predicted the woman she's become, cracks and all. An affecting story of two people, one famous, one known only through her portrayals in enduring works of fiction, Gatsby's Girl is a tremendously entertaining and moving novel about the powerful.
forces of first love, memory, and art.
System details Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Other edition Print version: Preston, Caroline Gatsby's Girl Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,c2013.
Subject Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940 -- Fiction.
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
Genre Electronic books.
Other corporate author OverDrive, Inc.
ISBN 9780544276536
STANDARD # A49F6E50-A19C-414B-B19B-631E5C077410 OverDrive