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The Crack-Up; F. Scott Fitzgerald's memorable muse tells her version of the romance.

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20060521
Author:Reviewed by Ron Charles

GATSBY'S GIRL

A Novel

By Caroline Preston

Houghton Mifflin. 312 pp. $24

Exhuming a character buried in a famous novel sounds like a late- night violation of sacred ground, but if someone talented does the digging, who can resist the temptation to see what's there? Especially considering how many times our ghoulish curiosity has been rewarded. What sort of woman would marry the captain of the Pequod? (Check out Ahab's Wife, by Sena Jeter Naslund.) How did Jane Eyre's employer happen to have an insane wife in his attic? (That's revealed in Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys.) Would Tiny Tim be ...

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