The Fortunate Ones Tarkington Ed
The Fortunate Ones Tarkington Ed "The Fortunate Ones feels like a fresh and remarkably sure-footed take on The Great Gatsby, examining the complex costs of attempting to transcend or exchange your…
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The Fortunate Ones Tarkington Ed
"The Fortunate Ones feels like a fresh and remarkably sure-footed take on The Great Gatsby, examining the complex costs of attempting to transcend or exchange your given class for a more gilded one. As a novelist, he is the real deal. Tarkington's understanding of the human heart and mind is deep, wise, and uncommonly empathetic.
But when his mother arranges for him to be admitted as a scholarship student to an elite private school, he is suddenly introduced to what the world can feel like to someone cushioned by money. I can't wait to see this story reach a wide audience, and to see what he does next." --Paula McLain, author of The Paris WifeWhen Charlie Boykin was young, he thought his life with his single mother on the working-class side of Nashville was perfectly fine. That world, he discovers, is an almost irresistible place where one can bend--and