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So We Read On: How The Great Gatsby Came To Be and Why It Endures
By Corrigan, Maureen
- ISBN
- 9780316230070 9780316230087
- Publisher
- Little, Brown
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Starred Review on September 1, 2014 | Arts and Humanities
Book critic (NPR's Fresh Air), professor (literature, Georgetown Univ.), and author (Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading) Corrigan pens a literary love letter with this information-packed, entertaining volume. The object of her affection, F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel The Great Gatsby, is examined from many angles—literary, sociological, cultural, personal, and historical. The intrepid Corrigan reads and rereads the novel; offers insights into its tropes ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
