The Great Gatsby: A Graphic Novel Adaptation (K. Woodman-Maynard, 2021)
The novel painted in watercolour by K. Woodman-Maynard.
The novel’s images stay with people longer than its plot. Paint them, and let them carry it.
You remember the novel in pictures, and you want to look at it slowly.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: the story and its most familiar images, from the green light to the billboard.
Changes: the page, into watercolour panels that put the imagery first.
Adapted and painted in watercolour by K. Woodman-Maynard, with the novel’s imagery at the front: the green light, the billboard.
Whose story is it?
Nick’s, told through what he sees.
How much time does it ask?
240 pages, from Candlewick.
Candlewick: adapted and illustrated by K. Woodman-Maynard, “painted in lush watercolors.”
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