Scott Fitzgeralds classic American novel, The Great Gatsby (1925). Beautiful Little Fools is a quintessential tale of money and power, marriage and friendship, love and desire, and ultimately the murder of a man tormented by the past and driven by a destructive longing that can never be fulfilled. Beautiful Little Fools by Jillian Cantor is a feminist reimagining of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, retelling this timeless American classic from the women's perspective. Jillian Cantor beautifully re-crafts an American classic in Beautiful. Jillian Cantor revisits the glittering Jazz Age world of F. Read Beautiful Little Fools A Novel by Jillian Cantor available from Rakuten Kobo. Each woman is pulled deeper into Jay Gatsby's romantic obsession, with devastating consequences for all of them. Their stories unfold in the years leading up to that fateful summer of 1922, when all three of their lives are on the brink of unraveling. Jordan Baker, Daisy's best friend, guards a secret that derailed her promising golf career and threatens to ruin her friendship with Daisy as well.Ĭatherine McCoy, a suffragette, fights for women's freedom and independence, and especially for her sister, Myrtle Wilson, who's trapped in a terrible marriage. Each holds a key that can unlock the truth to the mysterious life and death of this enigmatic millionaire.ĭaisy Buchanan once thought she might marry Gatsby-before her family was torn apart by an unspeakable tragedy that sent her into the arms of the philandering Tom Buchanan. Then a diamond hairpin is discovered in the bushes by the pool, and three women fall under suspicion.

Each holds a key that can unlock the truth to the mysterious life and. Then a diamond hairpin is found in the bushes by the pool, and three women fall under suspicion. To the police, it appears to be an open-and-shut case of murder/suicide when the body of George Wilson, a local mechanic, is found in the woods nearby. When Jay Gatsby is shot dead in his West Egg swimming pool, it appears to be an open-and-shut case of murder/suicide when the body of George Wilson is found in the woods nearby. On a sultry August day in 1922, Jay Gatsby is shot dead in his West Egg swimming pool.

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