Since its publication in 1925, The Great Gatsby has become one of the world's best-loved books. Careless People tells the true story behind F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece, exploring in newly rich detail its relation to the extravagant, scandalous, and chaotic world in which the author lived. With wit and insight, Sarah Churchwell traces the genesis of a masterpiece, mapping where fiction comes from, and how it takes shape in the mind of a genius. Careless People tells the extraordinary tale of how F. Scott Fitzgerald created a classic and in the process discovered modern America.
Since its publication in 1925, The Great Gatsby has become one of the world's best-loved books. Careless People tells the true story behind F. Scott F...
Sarah Churchwell has selected 11 forgotten stories from throughout Fitzgerald's career that refract, in different ways, his most familiar motifs: the changing meanings of America in the first decades of the 20th century, and the desire to reconcile rich and poor through a romantic search for glamour, hope and wonder.
Sarah Churchwell has selected 11 forgotten stories from throughout Fitzgerald's career that refract, in different ways, his most familiar motifs: the ...
`Ferociously smart ... A rare combination of guilty pleasure and intellectual insight' VOGUE `Perceptive ... Refreshing ... Tears away layers of false readings and conspiracy theories' NEW YORK TIMES Intricately researched ... Churchwell's Marilyn is a complex, well-rounded creature in the best sense - the human sense' OBSERVER There are many Marilyns: sex goddess and solitary figure, crafty manipulator and dumb blonde, liberated woman and innocent child. In incisive and passionate prose, Sarah Churchwell looks at how the stories we tell have trivialised a woman we supposedly...
`Ferociously smart ... A rare combination of guilty pleasure and intellectual insight' VOGUE `Perceptive ... Refreshing ... Tears away layers of fa...
What does America stand for in the twenty-first century? Behold, America confronts this urgent question by looking at the story behind two of the most contentious phrases in the American political playbook: the 'American dream' and 'America first'
What does America stand for in the twenty-first century? Behold, America confronts this urgent question by looking at the story behind two of the most...
