The Road to West Egg
Thomas Powers, 4 July 2013
Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of ‘The Great Gatsby’
by Sarah Churchwell.
Virago, 306 pp., £16.99, June 2013,978 1 84408 766 2 Show More
by Sarah Churchwell.
Virago, 306 pp., £16.99, June 2013,
“... when you’re young. ‘I want to be one of the greatest writers who have ever lived,’ Scott Fitzgerald said to his friend Edmund Wilson when they were just out of college, ‘don’t you?’ Wilson was the son of a lawyer, a bit chilly, a prodigious reader steeped in Plato and Dante. He thought Fitzgerald’s remark foolish – just what you might ... ”