Author Description

Classics Slacker fans (Slackies) the world over requested the Classics Slacker treatment of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and we delivered! When you think of The Great American Novel, you have to consider Fitzgerald's masterpiece of the Jazz Age. After all, it has the word "great" right there in the title. And it's nice and short, too, fitting easily into the backpacks of most American high school students. If they took it out and opened it, they would find, among other highlights: a lovelorn protagonist, green lights, large bespectacled billboards, and drinking, oh the drinking, lots of drinking! All taking place on the fictional Eggs of Long Island. What does it all mean? If you didn't find out in high school English class, the Classics Slacker unravels it for you here. This is a book for the slackiest of Classics Slackers, those who couldn't even make it through Fitzgerald's skinny little book. But there's no slack-shaming here, only big laughs. Eggcellent illustrations, too!