{"product_id":"the-great-gatsby-9781784877088","title":"The Great Gatsby","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e'In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsby's party. But Gatsby stands apart from the crowd, isolated by a secret longing. In between sips of champagne his guests speculate about their mysterious host. Some say he's a bootlegger. Others swear he was a German spy during the war. They lean in and whisper 'he killed a man once'. Just where is Gatsby from and what is the obsession that drives him?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eVINTAGE DECO: Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Great Gatsby\u003c\/i\u003e remains not just one of the greatest works of American literature, but a timeless evocation of the allure, corruption and carelessness of wealth...a gilded society intoxicated by wealth, dancing its way into the Great Depression. * The Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGatsby\u003c\/i\u003e is a connoisseur's guide to the glamour and glitter of the Jazz Age, but it's also a nearly prophetic glimpse into the world to come. Writing at the height of the boom, in the midst of the Roaring Twenties, Fitzgerald detected the ephemerality, fakery and corruption always lurking at the heart of the great American success story... A haunting meditation on aspiration, disillusionment, romantic love - and a blistering exposé of the materialism, duplicity, and sexual politics driving what Fitzgerald calls America's true \"business\": \"the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty\" * The Times *\u003cbr\u003eIt is a marvellously suggestive novel...a parable of modern America, and by extension of modern life * Daily Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eThe first and greatest modern novel, it has beautiful women, lavish parties, romance, betrayal and murder woven together in an intricately structured plot. A prescient comment on the dying days of a gilded age that is brilliant entertainment with a very eloquent insight * Mirror *\u003cbr\u003eHis masterpiece, an elegy for the American Dream, the greatest lost cause of them all * Los Angeles Times *","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49412143645015,"sku":"9781784877088","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781784877088.jpg?v=1730515800","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-great-gatsby-9781784877088","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}