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World Book Club: The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald

BBC Radio 4 Extra - World Book Club, The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald

Jay McInerney and Anne Margaret Daniel discuss F Scott Fitzgerald's classic Jazz Age novel

Jay McInerney and Anne Margaret Daniel discuss F Scott Fitzgerald's classic Jazz Age novel. With Harriett Gilbert. From May 2013.

World Book Club comes from New York City in the USA.

Partnering up with the acclaimed Leonard Lopate Show’s Book Club on the New York radio station WNYC, World Book Club has come here to discuss that classic novel of The Roaring Twenties, The Great Gatsby. And who better to talk to about it than chronicler of today’s New York young urban sophisticates, novelist Jay McInerney. He is joined on stage by F Scott Fitzgerald scholar Anne Margaret Daniel and together we discuss the haunting tale of dazzling, doomed Jay Gatsby as told to through the eyes of young Midwesterner Nick Carraway.

Presenter: Harriett Gilbert

First broadcast on the BBC World Service in 2013.

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