Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of the Great Gatsby

Sarah Churchwell - Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of the Great Gatsby
Sarah Churchwell
Date: 
January 23, 2014
ISBN: 
1594204748

Careless People is a unique literary investigation: a gripping double narrative that combines a forensic search for clues to an unsolved crime and a quest for the roots of America’s best loved novel. Overturning much of the received wisdom of the period, Careless People blends biography and history with lost newspaper accounts, letters, and newly discovered archival materials. With great wit and insight, acclaimed scholar of American literature Sarah Churchwell reconstructs the events of that pivotal autumn, revealing in the process new ways of thinking about Fitzgerald’s masterpiece.

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