One of the French novelists, I can never remember accurately
whether it was Maurois or Mauriac, said that 'the door slams shut
on a writer before the age of 12' - meaning that all his raw
material has been formed by then. It feels a bit early but I know
what he meant. Likewise, perhaps all the influential books are
those encountered in one's formative years. Fitzgerald had many
faults - unpursued ideas, incomplete themes - but in Gatsby he
created a sleek monster, a metaphor for that society of the rich
dangerous to the heart even when passive Review by Frank Delaney,
whose books include 'The Sins of the Mothers' (Kirkus UK)
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In The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald brilliantly captures both the disillusion of post-war America and the moral failure of a society obsessed with wealth and status. But he does more than render the essence of a particular time and place, for in chronicling Gatsby's tragic pursuit of his dream, Fitzgerald recreates the universal conflict between illusion and reality.
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