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'A classic, perhaps the supreme American novel' Sunday Times, Books of the Century'It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life'Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. But one thing will always be out of his reach ... Everybody who is anybody is seen at his glittering parties. Day and night his Long Island mansion buzzes with bright young things drinking, dancing and debating his mysterious character.
For Gatsby - young, handsome, fabulously rich - always seems alone in the crowd, watching and waiting, though no one knows what for. Beneath the shimmering surface of his life he is hiding a secret: a silent longing that can never be fulfilled. And soon this destructive obsession will force his world to unravel.
La meilleure façon de découvrir ou redécouvrir un classique et de travailler son anglais !
Dans les années 20, à long island, vit un mystérieux personnage appelé Gatsby. Mais qui est donc cet homme, amoureux transit de la belle Daisy, qui donne des versions différentes de sa vie passée à tout un chacun et organise des fêtes somptueuses et onéreuses ?
Nous le découvrons au fil des pages grâce à son voisin et ami Nick Carraway. Nous découvrons aussi la superficialité, l'opportunisme et l'abandon.
Francis Scott Fitzgerald dépeint une époque et ses différences sociales mais aussi la noirceur de comportements lâches et profiteurs !
Odile