F. Scott Fitzgerald
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 237 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Depicted as braggart, brute, and bore in The Great Gatsby, Tom Buchanan has gotten a bad rap and means to correct the record. That weak-kneed, simpering cousin of his wife's, with his prattling about some lost idealized American individualism and rectitude, was not only a fool and a liar, but worse: a failed bond salesman. But by 1924 Tom has bigger problems than the pathos of the summer of '22. First, there's Aunt Gertrude, who has assumed control...