The Fresh Air book critic investigates the enduring power of The Great Gatsby. Offering a fresh perspective on what makes Gatsby great-and utterly unusual, Corrigan takes us into archives, high school classrooms, and even out onto the Long Island Sound to explore the novel's hidden depths, a journey whose revelations include Gatsby's surprising debt to hard-boiled crime fiction, its rocky path to recognition as a "classic," and its profound commentaries on the national themes of race, class, and gender.
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