"I want to write something new, something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned." F. Scott Fitzgerald (1923). "The first step American fiction has taken since Henry James." T. S. Eliot (of The Great Gatsby) "One of the most important works in American literature - and, to many, the great American novel." - Time (of The Great Gatsby) "One of the most wonderful writers of the twentieth century." - Financial...