Name: Careless People
ISBN: 9781594204746

Sarah Bartlett Churchwell

An investigation into the inspiration behind F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece traces his parties and quarrels at the side of Zelda amid the scandals of 1922 before a double murder in New Jersey set the stage for what was to become an American classic.

Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of the Great Gatsby

Careless People

Andrea McGuffey

Sarah Churchwell

Ebook edition includes full text of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. 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.

Careless People Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of the Great Gatsby

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