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The chosen and the beautiful

ISBN: 9781250784780
ISBN: 1250784786
ISBN: 9781250784797
Physical Description: print 262 pages ; 22 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Tordotcom, 2021.
Copyright: &copy;2021

Vo, Nghi (author.). Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940 Adaptation of (work): Great Gatsby. (Added Author).

Summary: "Immigrant. Socialite. Magician. Jordan Baker grows up in the most rarefied circles of 1920s American society-she has money, education, a killer golf handicap, and invitations to some of the most exclusive parties of the Jazz Age. She's also queer and Asian, a Vietnamese adoptee treated as an exotic attraction by her peers, while the most important doors remain closed to her. But the world is full of wonders: infernal pacts and dazzling illusions, lost ghosts and elemental mysteries. In all paper is fire, and Jordan can burn the cut paper heart out of a man. She just has to learn how. Nghi Vo's debut novel The Chosen and the Beautiful reinvents this classic of the American canon as a coming-of-age story full of magic, mystery, and glittering excess, and introduces a major new literary voice"--