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Falling for Gatsby
When Lucas saves Martha from falling down the steps of the cinema after a screening of The Great Gatsby, it ignites an attraction between them that is as compelling as it is forbidden.
Throughout their subsequent affair the lovers become entranced by the classic story that first brought them together and, during their rare and precious afternoons together, Lucas reads Martha extracts from the book.
However, as with Gatsby and Daisy’s relationship, Martha and Lucas' meetings are fraught with danger and uncertainty. Is their love affair destined to mirror the course of the novel, or is there another way for this story to end?
Throughout their subsequent affair the lovers become entranced by the classic story that first brought them together and, during their rare and precious afternoons together, Lucas reads Martha extracts from the book.
However, as with Gatsby and Daisy’s relationship, Martha and Lucas' meetings are fraught with danger and uncertainty. Is their love affair destined to mirror the course of the novel, or is there another way for this story to end?
38 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 15, 2014
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Claire Dyer
19 books32 followersAuthor and poet. My literary thriller 'The Significant Others of Odie May' is out July 2021.
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January 30, 2014Emotional short read following two strangers who literally collide at a screening of The Great Gatsby. The description of Martha's home life was truly chilling and I was hoping she would find the strength to escape.
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December 19, 2018
A Quick Nad Good Read for any Gatsby Fan
Having just finished The Great Gatsby I couldn’t wait to get my teeth into a novella inspired by it. Lucas is unlucky in love, Martha is stuck in an abusive marriage. By a chance meeting the two are thrown together and in the space of a few short pages all my feelings got played with. A really good quick read. I liked it.
Having just finished The Great Gatsby I couldn’t wait to get my teeth into a novella inspired by it. Lucas is unlucky in love, Martha is stuck in an abusive marriage. By a chance meeting the two are thrown together and in the space of a few short pages all my feelings got played with. A really good quick read. I liked it.
April 23, 2020
short read, but kinda meh and didn't have any impact for me.
February 1, 2014
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As a lover of all things F. Scott Fitzgerald, the title of this novella had me hooked.
"What would it be like to love like Gatsby loved, to be in thrall to an ideal and to be so faithful to that ideal?' ponders Lucas as he sits in the cinema watching The Great Gatsby. A chance encounter as the film credits roll answers this question for him, and changes his life for good.
It is not entirely necessary to have seen/read The Great Gatsby before reading this, but it would help in order to appreciate the multitude of references to it.
Lucas isn't strictly Gatsby - he seems to me to be more of a Gatsby/Nick hybrid. Recently out of a failed long term relationship he is searching for something real in his life, someone to save, and that person is Martha. Following a ridiculously short courtship she married Adam oblivious to his controlling and abusive personality, and aside from her confidante Diane she has no escape - until she meets Lucas. The Great Gatsby is the cause of their meeting, and subsequently plays a part in all of their clandestine afternoons together, as they compare their personal story with Fitzgerald's masterpiece.
I only wish that this story was longer! It easily had the potential to be a full length novel, yet the short and sweet style worked well with the plot.
4/5 stars: fans of Gatsby will appreciate the references, whilst the gentle and tender love story will appeal to any romance fan.
As a lover of all things F. Scott Fitzgerald, the title of this novella had me hooked.
"What would it be like to love like Gatsby loved, to be in thrall to an ideal and to be so faithful to that ideal?' ponders Lucas as he sits in the cinema watching The Great Gatsby. A chance encounter as the film credits roll answers this question for him, and changes his life for good.
It is not entirely necessary to have seen/read The Great Gatsby before reading this, but it would help in order to appreciate the multitude of references to it.
Lucas isn't strictly Gatsby - he seems to me to be more of a Gatsby/Nick hybrid. Recently out of a failed long term relationship he is searching for something real in his life, someone to save, and that person is Martha. Following a ridiculously short courtship she married Adam oblivious to his controlling and abusive personality, and aside from her confidante Diane she has no escape - until she meets Lucas. The Great Gatsby is the cause of their meeting, and subsequently plays a part in all of their clandestine afternoons together, as they compare their personal story with Fitzgerald's masterpiece.
I only wish that this story was longer! It easily had the potential to be a full length novel, yet the short and sweet style worked well with the plot.
4/5 stars: fans of Gatsby will appreciate the references, whilst the gentle and tender love story will appeal to any romance fan.
January 21, 2014
This is a really good story for a freebee. A bitter sweet story of finding love and escaping the horror of domestic abuse.
December 14, 2014
an entertaining short read
January 13, 2015
Wonderful! A real review is coming soon lol
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