Twinkle Khanna book recommendations The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald Though Tender is the Night has a starring spot on a shelf lined with my prized possessions, I never quite got around to reading Fitzgerald’s acknowledged masterpiece, The Great Gatsby till just last year. Stunning prose, evocative of an era of bootleggers, cocktails and flighty decadence all revolving around Jay Gatsby, a man trying to rise above his circumstances, hoping his redemption lies with Daisy Buchanan and her voice that ‘sounds of money’. A brilliant commentary on the shallow pursuit of shiny facades and still relevant today. I also happened to accidentally stumble upon a letter that Fitzgerald wrote to the publisher of Great Gatsby, Alfred Knopf’s wife, Blanche. In this scribbled document, he decided to conjugate the verb ‘cocktail’. I promptly printed it out and it has now found a prominent place on the pin board above my writing desk. Both as a homage to Fitzgerald and because if one must conjugate then ‘cocktail’ is a better v
