The Great Gatsby: A Graphic Adaptation (Nicki Greenberg)
The novel played out by a cast of fantastical creatures in 1920s New York.
The people in this book are strange animals in fine clothes. Draw them that way.
You want the novel made odd and funny and sad, by an artist with her own idea of it.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: the 1920s New York setting, the drama, the humour and the tragedy.
Changes: the cast, into fantastical creatures drawn by Nicki Greenberg.
Whose story is it?
everyone’s at the party, in costume.
How much time does it ask?
316 pages in Allen & Unwin’s paperback.
Allen & Unwin: “a throng of fantastical creatures play out the drama, the wry humour and the tragedy of the novel.”
Where to find it
Buy the paperback — Bookshop.org
Other ways to get it: Paperback — Amazon · Ebook — Kobo · Kindle — Amazon
Borrow it free: Borrow on Libby · Find at your library — WorldCat
More ways into West Egg: The Scribner paperback (“The Only Authorized Edition”) · The Penguin Classics edition, introduction by Min Jin Lee · The Norton Critical Edition, ed. David Alworth