The Road to West Egg
Thomas Powers, 4 July 2013
Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of ‘The Great Gatsby’
by Sarah Churchwell.
Virago, 306 pp., £16.99, June 2013,978 1 84408 766 2 Show More
by Sarah Churchwell.
Virago, 306 pp., £16.99, June 2013,
“... of the spirit of the time, something like the marvellously frantic crowd and party scenes in Baz Luhrmann’s new film of The Great Gatsby. Many of Churchwell’s connections are not only interesting but plausible and even convincing. One, however, is not, an episode known as the Hall-Mills murder case, which unfolded in the newspapers over many ... ”