Yikes, serial posting here while just checking back into the thread. My kiddo loved the book and has read some of his others but thinks this is his best. She went with friends to the movie and she was the only one who had even read the book. It wasn’t required for any of them so they didn’t read it. It wasn’t required for me back in the day but I read it anyway and thought it was meh. I did not like them not using music exclusively from the genre. And not just because I am underwhelmed by contemporary urban stuff. Different strokes...
yes i read all of his books, along with all of hemingway’s and gertude stein etc. because they were all of a piece with the Jazz Age, Lost Generation, Americans in Paris idea. We talked about it afterwards and only xsbaby’s class had done it as a part of that period and talked about it and watched a movie about that period [Midnight in Paris]. Now that i think of it, i think i read that on my own.