Gatsby's Girl
by Caroline Preston
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Author: Caroline PrestonEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-05-23
ISBN: 0618872612
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Mariner Books
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Summary: 3 Stars
I really loved "Jackie by Josie" so looked forward to reading this book. I found the two to be entirely different, and so it took me awhile to get through the first part of it. I'm glad I did. I never read any of F. Scott Fitzgerald, shockingly, really, but I found the history/fiction angle to be really kind of intriguing and I will now go and read Fitzgerald's books.
At first you don't like the protagonist very much, and when I was in publishing years ago, I was taught that if you don't like the main characters, you don't care about the story. But you do come to care about Ginevra. I'd have liked to see the character developed more, but she does grow and change and becomes after a time humorously self-deprecating.
If you hang in there, you'll be glad you did. I look forward to more books from this author.
Summary of Gatsby's Girl
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.
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