John Grishamis inviting readers to take a new look at East and West Egg.
Few books loom as large in the canon of American literature asThe Great Gatsby.
EW can exclusively share the book’s cover, as well as an excerpt of Grisham’s introduction.
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As Nick becomes increasingly enmeshed in their lives, he hurtles toward an inevitably tragic conclusion.
This edition will hit shelves Jan. 5.
Check out the cover and excerpt below.
And what, exactly, did its author intend for it to be about?
Huge forests have been cleared to produce enough paper for countless academics and scholars to analyze these two questions.
Libraries have been filled with scholarly works about Fitzgerald and his most famous work.
The odds were always against him, and he failed and died trying.
That’s the beauty of the book.
We are caught in our past and cannot escape it, but at least we try.
John Grisham
2020
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