TITLE: THE GREAT GATSBY
AUTHOR: F.SCOTT FITZGERALD
GENRE: FICTION, NOVEL, CLASSIC
GOODREADS SYNOPSIS:
Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate – a marvellous fusion into a unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period – which reveals a hero like no other – one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts.
It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous entertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan – a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe.
It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism.
MY REVIEW:
When I had started reading this book, I felt bored. There were numerous mentions of people, names, events, tended me to abandon this book at one point. But the book had revealed its real excellence when I reached half the novel. All those events, names mentioned earlier became more plausible for me.
It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous entertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan – a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe.
It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism.
MY REVIEW:
When I had started reading this book, I felt bored. There were numerous mentions of people, names, events, tended me to abandon this book at one point. But the book had revealed its real excellence when I reached half the novel. All those events, names mentioned earlier became more plausible for me.