The parties at Gatsby's Long Island mansion were legendary glamorous affairs.

Yet amid the throng of guests, starlets and champagne waiters, their host would appear oddly aloof. For there was only person Jay Gatsby sought to impress. She was Daisy Buchanan: married, elegant, seducing men with a silken charisma and 'a voice ... full of money'.

As Gatsby pursues shady deals and his doomed obsession with Daisy, F. Scott Fitzgerald distills the essence of the Jazz Age, and probes to the empty heart of the American Dream.

 


This BBC Big Read book comes highly recommended by my cousin Sarah, and as I trust her judgment on most things I'm looking forward to getting into this book.

 

Return To The Menu