No One Is Coming to Save Us
The Great Gatsby brilliantly recast in the contemporary South:a powerful first novel about an extended African-American family and their colliding visions of the American Dream.JJ Ferguson has returned home to Pinewood, North Carolina to build his dream home and to woo his high school sweetheart,...
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The Great Gatsby brilliantly recast in the contemporary South:a powerful first novel about an extended African-American family and their colliding visions of the American Dream.JJ Ferguson has returned home to Pinewood, North Carolina to build his dream home and to woo his high school sweetheart, Ava. But he finds that the people he once knew and loved have changed, just a
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN:
9780062472984 (0062472984)
ASIN: 62472984
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
"People can be like home sometimes and that's if you are very, very lucky." Forget Gatsby. Beyond some names and some lines that go almost in exactly the opposite direction (see above), this is a novel that stands on its own, doesn't need Fitzgerald, and is only loosely related in the most academic...