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So We Read On How The Great Gatsby Came to Be & Why It Endures

by Maureen Corrigan
So We Read On How The Great Gatsby Came to Be & Why It Endures

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"Maureen Corrigan has produced a minor miracle: a book about The Great Gatsby that stands up to Gatsby itself" --Michael Cunningham.

It's a revered classic and a rite of passage in the reading lives of millions. But how well do we really know The Great Gatsby? As "Fresh Air" book critic Maureen Corrigan points out, many of us first read Fitzgerald's masterpiece when we were too young to comprehend its power.

Offering a fresh perspective on Gatsby, SO WE READ ON takes readers into archives, high school classrooms, and onto the Long Island Sound to explore the novel's hidden depths, revealing its surprising debt to noir, its rocky path to recognition as a "classic," and its profound commentaries on race, class, and gender. With rigor, wit, and infectious enthusiasm, Corrigan inspires us to re-experience Gatsby and, along the way, spins a fascinating story of her own.Maureen Corrigan is the book critic for NPR's "Fresh Air," the Critic-in-Residence at Georgetown University, and winner of the Edgar Award for Criticism. She is the author of Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading (Random House, 2005).

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Praise for LEAVE ME ALONE, I'M READING:

"Corrigan's eclectic taste and skillful assessment of new writers as well as those long dead are particularly astute."--USA TODAY

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"A brilliant and funny narrative of [Corrigan's] own reading life . . . Utterly original."--Chicago Tribune

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"Immensely likable, eclectic, and dynamic, Corrigan is as adept in her analysis of life as she is in her fresh and significant interpretations of books."--Booklist

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"Corrigan is erudite without being the least bit pretentious... Dipping into Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading is a little like visiting that friend whose house is always full of books and who always sends you home with one you're excited to read."--Detroit Free-Press

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"Maureen Corrigan has produced a minor miracle: a book about The Great Gatsby that stands up to Gatsby itself."--Michael Cunningham

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"No one is better at bringing a book to life than Maureen Corrigan. Her vividly personal evocation of Fitzgerald and The Great Gatsby is at once a labor of love, the story of a quest, and a mother lode of information and insight. As a biography of a novel, it reads like a novel."-- Morris Dickstein, author of Gates of Eden and Dancing in the Dark

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"Second only to the pleasure of re-reading Gatsby is the pleasure of talking to someone about it, and Maureen Corrigan is the ultimate someone: boundlessly erudite, blazingly funny, and infectiously passionate. . . . As with the book that inspired it, my only complaint about So We Read On is that it comes to an end."--Susan Choi, author of My Education

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"An intoxicating cocktail of talent, celebrity, gangster noir, and the vicissitudes of reputation that create a classic."-- Ron Rosenbaum, author of The Shakespeare Wars

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"As pleasurable to read as Fitzgerald's. ... It's smart and compelling, persuasive without demeaning other interpretations...a gorgeous treat."--The Washington Post

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"We have to be thankful to Maureen Corrigan for letting us in on her intriguing love affairs with great books, as in this wonderful account of her grand passion for The Great Gatsby. She reminds us that perhaps one true promise of that elusive green light at the end of the dock resides in our creative imagination, and the intimate relationship between a book and its reader."--Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran and The Republic of Imagination

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"Corrigan's research was as intrepid as her analysis is ardent and expert, and she brings fact, thought, feelings, and personal experiences together in a buoyant, illuminating, and affecting narrative about one depthless novel, the transforming art of reading, and the endless tides that tumble together life and literature."-- Booklist (Starred Review)

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"A literary love letter... [Corrigan's] tone is lively and bright and her enthusiasm for the novel is infectious. You'll feel as if you're attending a lecture by your favorite prof or chatting with a brainy, bookish friend. Bursting with intellectual energy and fun facts, this paean to the 'great American novel will appeal to fans of Corrigan's book critiques and Jazz Age scholars, and will, one hopes, impel readers to pick up the brief work for the first (or fourth, or 14th) time."-- Library Journal (Starred Review)

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"So We Read On is a fine book on many levels, almost too many to list. This book is a love story about a book. It's an expression of love for one of the most lyrical and engaging and prescient novels in the English language. Maureen Corrigan writes not only with passion about her subject, she writes with an understanding of America and the elusive goal represented by the green light on Daisy's dock."--James Lee Burke

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"Coaxing us aboard her narrative Tilt-A-Whirl, Corrigan spins us from topic to topic and back again, each revolution both reminding and enriching."

--Cleveland Plain Dealer

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"So We Read On is a marvelous mix of the high and the low: solid literary criticism delivered in a user-friendly manner, coupled with the back story of the book's creation, replete with the sordid details of Scott (and Zelda) Fitzgerald's sad, unfulfilled promise."--BookPage

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"Too genuine and moving to be resisted...[a] generous spirit warms every page of So We Read On."--The Boston Globe

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"NPR's resident Fitzgerald aficionado delivers the college seminar we all wish we'd taken."

--O, The Oprah Magazine


About the Author

Maureen Corrigan is the book critic for NPR's "Fresh Air," the Critic-in-Residence at Georgetown University, and winner of the Edgar Award for Criticism. She is the author of Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading (Random House, 2005).


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ISBN:
9780316230063
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Publication date:
05/12/2015
Publisher:
HACHETTE BOOK GROUP
Pages:
368
Height:
1.30IN
Width:
5.40IN
Thickness:
1.00
Illustration:
Yes
Author:
Maureen Corrigan
Author:
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