The Great GatsbyAudiobook Review
by F. Scott Fitzgerald · Narrated by Varies by edition
Editorial book review — not a firsthand listening review. Audio performance is not scored; verify the selected edition at the retailer.
"A short, glittering elegy for the American dream."
Nick Carraway rents a cottage on Long Island beside the mansion of Jay Gatsby, a mysterious host whose lavish parties hide a single obsession: Daisy Buchanan, the woman he lost years earlier.
Fitzgerald's prose is the reason to return: every sentence is polished, and the closing pages are among the most quoted in American literature. The characters are deliberately hollow, which some readers find cold, but that emptiness is the novel's subject.
Several English audio editions exist; this is an editorial assessment of the book. Ideal for a single long evening of listening or reading.
