The Russian Gatsby

A symbol of everything modern, an American flapper would typically apply makeup inside a gleaming, new skyscraper or mansion and not outside a crumbling, old world ruin. But that’s what happens when you use a Russian stock photo for your cover.

Pros

High-school students writing book reports will appreciate this banal blurb from the back cover: “…the significance of the story being, ‘The great American Dream is essentially unachievable.’”

Cons

The book text is set in Arial. With drop caps.

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