6/29/2023 0 Comments Beautiful little fool bookThere’s “careless, carefree” Daisy Buchanan from Louisville, Ky., who “wanted to be someone who mattered” her ambitious, sporty childhood best friend, Jordan Baker, who is embroiled in a women’s golf circuit scandal and Catherine McCoy, who leaves the family farm for New York City, where she works for the National Women’s League, attends suffrage meetings, and worries about the bruises on her sister. Here, Cantor imagines a woman shooting Gatsby in “.” Three women figure prominently in the narrative. In Fitzgerald’s version, it was George Wilson who killed Jay Gatsby. Cantor ( Half Life) succeeds brilliantly with this audacious revisionist murder mystery featuring characters from The Great Gatsby.
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