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The mark of great fiction writing for me is the ability to capture a moment in time and make it feel utterly real, and Fitzgerald managed it perfectly here. He depicted the underbelly of America's most hedonistic era in a way that, more than anything, is utterly necessary. Deserving of its reputation.
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This is one I read in my youth but have long fogotten. One can easily see why it is a classic, though the language is obviously from a different era. Gay has an entirely different connotation here
Can't believe I haven't read this before!
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May 13, 2013
Beth
marked it as to-read
Dec 16, 2007
Kat (A Journey In Reading)
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