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On a rainy afternoon in London's old Chelsea, a charming multi-billionaire Russian oligarch, Gorsky, walks into an ailing bookshop and writes the first of several quarter-of-a-million pound checks. With that money, Gorsky has tasked Nikola, the store's bored and brilliant clerk, with sourcing books for a massive personal library, which which will be housed in the magnificent, palatial home Gorsky happens to be building immediately next to Nikola's own modest dwelling. Gorsky needs a tasteful collection of Russian literature to woo a long-lost love--no matter that she happens to be married to an Englishman. His passion for her surpasses even his immeasurable wealth, and Nikola will be drawn into a world of opulence, greed, capitalism, sex, and beauty as he helps Gorsky pursue this doomed love. Charmingly written and inspired by The Great Gatsby, Gorsky is a vicarious thrill--an ode to cosmopolitan taste and a brilliant reimagining of a powerful classic.
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An impressively accomplished retelling of the Gatsby story...From the beginning, Vesna Goldsworthy impresses with the precision of her prose, the control of her narrative, and her turn of phrase.
It s a very clever idea: to update "The Great Gatsby by making the bootlegger into a Russian arms-dealing billionaire and transplanting the action from Jazz Age New York to 21st-century London, a city increasingly shaped by global wealth."
Gorsky has got love, sex, murder, yet beneath all that its not-so-secret passion is literary fittingly, for a book based on a book... [A] kind of novel-length love letter to the written word. "
It's a very clever idea: to update "The Great Gatsby" by making the bootlegger into a Russian arms-dealing billionaire and transplanting the action from Jazz Age New York to 21st-century London, a city increasingly shaped by global wealth.
Gorsky has got love, sex, murder, yet beneath all that its not-so-secret passion is literary--fittingly, for a book based on a book... [A] kind of novel-length love letter to the written word.
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It s a very clever idea: to update "The Great Gatsby by making the bootlegger into a Russian arms-dealing billionaire and transplanting the action from Jazz Age New York to 21st-century London, a city increasingly shaped by global wealth."
Gorsky has got love, sex, murder, yet beneath all that its not-so-secret passion is literary fittingly, for a book based on a book... [A] kind of novel-length love letter to the written word. "
It's a very clever idea: to update "The Great Gatsby" by making the bootlegger into a Russian arms-dealing billionaire and transplanting the action from Jazz Age New York to 21st-century London, a city increasingly shaped by global wealth.
Gorsky has got love, sex, murder, yet beneath all that its not-so-secret passion is literary--fittingly, for a book based on a book... [A] kind of novel-length love letter to the written word.
It was a piece of business that comes along once in a lifetime. If you are lucky.
A captivating tale of big money, Russian beauty and good books.
A captivating tale of big money, Russian beauty and good books.
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- PublisherUlverscroft Ltd
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 1444826514
- ISBN 13 9781444826517
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages256
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