num_pages: 4
description: The late Alexander Scourby's voice is so resonant with images of the past that now when we hear his artful interpretations (at least, we older folks), we feel we are traveling familiar roads. After all, he helped define the audiobook age. As with all great narrators, Scourby has an actor's sensibilities. His rendition of Fitzgerald's most popular novel, recorded many years back, thus has been lauded, and rightly so. Scourby understands Nick Carraway's sympathetic telling of the inescapability of the past and the improbability of finding love and honor, even for the privileged classes, a truth that has assured Americans for decades that the wealthy suffer, too. Still, a latent sadness pervades this narration: Somehow Scourby makes us feel that we all have lost Daisy, and that Gatsby deserved better.
language: English
title: The Great Gatsby
titlecomplete: The Great Gatsby
characters: Jay Gatsby, George Wilson, Daisy Buchanan, Myrtle Wilson, Jordan Baker, Nick Carraway, Meyer Wolfsheim, Tom Buchanan
genres: Read For School, American, Historical Fiction, School, Novels, Literature, High School, Classics, Romance, Fiction
ratings_count: 4978034
places: New York City, New York, The United States of America, New York (State), Long Island, New York
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Grammy Award
category: Best Spoken Word Album, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Long Island Reads
publisher: BBC Audiobooks America