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(0)Caroline Preston
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Just as Jay Gatsby was haunted by Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fizgerald was haunted by his own great first love - a Chicago socialite named Ginevra. Alluring, capricious, and ultimately unavailable, she would become his first muse, the inspiration for such timeless characters as Gatsby's Daisy and Isabelle Borge in This Side of Paradise.
Caroline Preston's astute perceptions of her characters and the cultural landscapes they inhabit...