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Genre: Novel
Published: April 10, 1925

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Yair Ben-Zvi
Jul 29, 2011 rated it really liked it
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Up until the middle I felt this book was lacking...but as it wound down (or rather up) to its conclusion, I quickly realized that this is one of those few books worth all the hype surrounding it. Whether or not Fitzgerald was aware of it or not, the whole book feels like a dark prophecy, a gloomy harbinger of the emptiness of American decadence in the twenties. The great crash, the great war, all feel part of the tragic and epic metanarrative that Fitzgerald seemed almost to prefigure. Hollow an ...more
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Amara James
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I consider this book to be more interesting in theory. The actual plot bored me.
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