A SHORT NOVELLA ABOUT SCOTT AND ZELDA FITZGERALD’S SUMMER IN WESTPORT AND ONE GREAT GATSBY
Before Gatsby was written, it was lived eight miles from the green light.
April 1920. This Side of Paradise has just made F. Scott Fitzgerald famous overnight, and he has married Zelda Sayre before the ink on the reviews is dry. New York throws them out of two hotels in six weeks. So they load a secondhand Marmon with gin, a typewriter, and an unwritten novel, and drive up the Post Road to a grey cottage in Westport, Connecticut; next door to the vast Longshore estate of F. E. Lewis, a showman-millionaire who floodlights his lawns, fills them with circus wonders, pays cash for everything on principle, and is kept awake every night by a small green light flashing across the Sound from Long Island.
Over one wild summer of circus parties, Princeton weekends, false fire alarms, and a midnight chase down the railroad tracks, a marriage is tested, a novel is finished; and another, greater one is quietly conceived.
Fitzgerald is the untold story of the summer that became The Great Gatsby; told as a love story about the two people who lived it first.
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