Beautiful Little Fools strips the gauzy romance from The Great Gatsby down to the bare kitchen-sink melodrama of soap opera. Beautiful Little Fools: A Novel Hardcover Feb.

But if so, then Nick somehow also made them more witty and dashing. Cantor’s version testifies to a truth about gender relations in 1922 to which Nick, and possibly Fitzgerald himself, was oblivious. They are also extremely dull, and indistinguishable in voice and temperament. Beautiful Little Fools: A Novel Audible Audiobook Unabridged. Editions for Beautiful Little Fools: 0063051265 (Paperback published in 2022), 0063051257 (Hardcover published in 2022), (Kindle Edition published in 202. The men in Beautiful Little Fools are all selfish brutes and the women are, if not outright saints, remarkably noble, selfless, and long-suffering. Beautiful Little Foolsis a quintessential tale of money and power, marriage and friendship, love and desire, and ultimately the murder of a man tormented by the past and driven by a destructive longing that can never be fulfilled. The rest of Beautiful Little Fools follows this pattern: Any situation from the original novel in which a female character might be found at fault has been carefully reworked to render her blameless and victimized. Cantor’s is by far the weaker of the two efforts.

Two recent novels- The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo and Beautiful Little Fools by Jillian Cantor-retell The Great Gatsby’s story.

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