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. Jillian Cantor has successfully flipped this classic right side up for female readers One person found this helpful Helpful Report abuse C. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, retelling this timeless American classic from the women's perspective. Beautiful Little Fools brings readers a new light on the male characters with an old boys club mentality, entitlements and brazen affairs. Jillian Cantor revisits the glittering Jazz Age world of F. Scott Fitzgeralds classic American novel, The Great Gatsby (1925). Each woman is pulled deeper into Jay Gatsby's romantic obsession, with devastating consequences for all of them. Beautiful Little Fools by Jillian Cantor is a feminist reimagining of F. She felt too tomboyish to see herself in that context, but she. 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. Campbell, Gisele Bündchen, who wore archival Chanel from the 2007 bridal collection, has never considered herself a muse. 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. 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. On a sultry August day in 1922, Jay Gatsby is shot dead in his West Egg swimming pool.

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