Wonder

Michael Wood

  • The Love of the Last Tycoon: A Western by F. Scott Fitzgerald, edited by Matthew Bruccoli
    Cambridge, 352 pp, £30.00, June 1994, ISBN 0 521 40231 X
  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, edited by Matthew Bruccoli
    Cambridge, 225 pp, £27.95, October 1991, ISBN 0 521 40230 1
  • Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography by Jeffrey Meyers
    Macmillan, 400 pp, £17.50, June 1994, ISBN 0 333 59935 7

When asked what part of the Middle West he comes from, Jay Gatsby says: ‘San Francisco.’ This is usually taken as a sign of his shaky geography or his eagerness to cover up his origins, or both. But the response seems too blunt and broad for that – too blunt and broad for either Gatsby or Fitzgerald. If Gatsby were at all given to making jokes, we might think this was one.

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