“I feel that The Great Gatsby is the most together, the most surgically artistic effort of a novelist who was more exciting when he was not trying to contain the hot, maudlin, meandering mess of his own talent. (For the record, I also sense something phony about Gatsby’s very phoniness — for me the only convincing poor person Fitzgerald wrote was one who lost his fortune, not one who made it.  Fitzgerald’s poor people were like his black people or his Jews–all characteristics, no character.)” Modern Library Revue: #28 Tender is the Night by Lydia Kiesling
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“I feel that The Great Gatsby is the most together, the most surgically artistic effort of a novelist who was more exciting when he was not trying to contain the hot, maudlin, meandering mess of his own talent. (For the record, I also sense something phony about Gatsby’s very phoniness — for me the only convincing poor person Fitzgerald wrote was one who lost his fortune, not one who made it.  Fitzgerald’s poor people were like his black people or his Jews–all characteristics, no character.)”

Modern Library Revue: #28 Tender is the Night by Lydia Kiesling

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