The Great Gatsby

Publisher's synopsis

A brilliant, innovative, reverently faithful graphic novel adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s jazz-age classic.

‘No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man can store up in his ghostly heart.’

Nicki Greenberg’s adaptation of The Great Gatsby is breathtaking – a wonderful homage to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s jazz-age classic that brings to life the glitter, the melancholy and the grand and crumpled dreams of Fitzgerald’s unforgettable characters. In the exquisitely realised setting of 1920s New York, a throng of fantastical creatures play out the drama, the wry humour and the tragedy of the novel.

‘The novel is a wonder … it has vitality to an extraordinary degree and glamour, and a great deal of underlying thought of unusual quality … it is astonishing.’ – Max Perkins, editor, in a letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald on reading the original draft of The Great Gatsby, 1924.

Awards

Notable Book 2008 CBCA Book of the Year
Shortlisted 2008 Australian Book Industry Awards – Illustrated Books
Listed 2008 International Youth Library’s White Ravens List

Learn more

More information and resources about The Great Gatsby on Nicki Greenberg’s website:

Nicki Greenberg talks about her Gatsby – video recording by the Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas
Picturing Gatsby by Nicki Greenberg – article on Gatsby adaptations for Readings newsletter
The Panel Beaters – Sydney Morning Herald news article
Review of The Great Gatsby by Cefn Ridout – The Comics Journal (An edited version previously appeared in The Weekend Australian Review)
Review of The Great Gatsby by Eddie Campbell
The Australian comic book renaissance by Richard Watts – ArtsHub

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Nicki Greenberg

Nicki Greenberg is a writer and illustrator based in Melbourne, Australia. Her first picture books, The Digits series, were published when she was fifteen years old and sold over 400,000 copies in Australia and New Zealand. She later spent ten years disguised as a lawyer, while maintaining a not-so-secret Other Life as a comics artist and children’s book author. Her 2006 non-fiction book, It’s True! Squids Suck was shortlisted for the prestigious UK Aventis prize and the Australian Wilderness Society Awards. Nicki spent six years working on her graphic adaptation of The Great Gatsby, which was published by Allen & Unwin in 2007. She then plunged into a ‘staged on the page’ adaptation of Hamlet. Hamlet was joint winner of the CBCA Picture Book of the Year award in 2011. Inspired by her own young children, Nicki now spends most of her ink writing and illustrating picture books for younger readers.

'Bizarre, absorbing and very funny. A bold idea that works to great effect.'

Shaun Tan

Further Details

Author Nicki Greenberg

Publisher Allen & Unwin

Date of Publication 2007

ISBN 9781741751338 (print)

Category Graphic Novels