Beautiful Little Fools strips the gauzy romance from The Great Gatsby down to the bare kitchen-sink melodrama of soap opera. But if so, then Nick somehow also made them more witty and dashing.
Cantor’s version testifies to a truth about gender relations in 1922 to which Nick, and possibly Fitzgerald himself, was oblivious. Instead of retaining Nick Carraway as the narrator, Cantor retells the story from the viewpoints of the novel's women. Scott Fitzgerald's classic American novel, The Great Gatsby (1925). They are also extremely dull, and indistinguishable in voice and temperament. Beautiful Little Fools by Jillian Cantor is a feminist reimagining of F. The men in Beautiful Little Fools are all selfish brutes and the women are, if not outright saints, remarkably noble, selfless, and long-suffering. The rest of Beautiful Little Fools follows this pattern: Any situation from the original novel in which a female character might be found at fault has been carefully reworked to render her blameless and victimized. Jillian Cantor is the internationally bestselling author of ten novels for adults and teens, including In Another Time, The Hours Count, Margot and The Lost Letter.Her books have been translated into 13 languages and chosen for Amazon Best of the Month, LibraryReads, Indie Next. Cantor’s is by far the weaker of the two efforts.
Two recent novels- The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo and Beautiful Little Fools by Jillian Cantor-retell The Great Gatsby’s story. Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Julia Whelan, Elizabeth Evans, Brittany Pressley, George Newbern.
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