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Careless People

Sarah Churchwell

Since its publication in 1925, The Great Gatsby has become one of the world's best-loved books. Careless People tells the true story behind F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece, exploring in newly rich detail its relation to the extravagant, scandalous, and chaotic world in which the author lived.

With wit and insight, Sarah Churchwell traces the genesis of a masterpiece, mapping where fiction comes from, and how it takes shape in the mind of a genius. Careless People tells the extraordinary tale of how F. Scott Fitzgerald created a classic and in the process discovered modern America.

  • Classification : Biography & Memoir
  • Pub Date : MAR 6, 2014
  • Imprint : Virago
  • Page Extent : 448
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9781844087686
  • Price : INR 1,050
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Sarah Churchwell

Sarah Churchwell is Professor of American Literature and Public Understanding of the Humanities at the University of East Anglia. She is the author of The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe (Granta 2004) co-editor of Must Read: Rediscovering the Bestseller (Continuum 2012) and author of various scholarly articles chapters and introductions. Her journalism has appeared in the Guardian the New Statesman the Independent the New York Times Book Review the TLS the Observer the Times the Telegraph the Spectator and the Financial Times among others and she frequently appears on UK television and radio discussing arts culture and all things American. Although she remains an American she lives in London with her English husband.

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