Daisy

Pamela Buchanan

Maison d'édition: Austin Macauley Publishers

Synopsis

Have you ever wondered what happened to Daisy Buchanan after the Great Gatsby was murdered in his swimming pool on Long Island in the summer of 1922? She and Tom Buchanan fled to Europe where they met almost everybody worth knowing in the roaring twenties: the Hemingways, the Fitzgeralds, Pablo Picasso, who painted her portrait, Gerald and Sara Murphy, as well as the Prince of Wales.


After years of interviews and with the help of Daisy's diaries, her daughter, Pamela, has reconstructed Daisy's life in Paris, in England, and in Spain where Daisy left the privileged life she had known to become involved on the loyalist side of the Spanish Civil War.

Disponible depuis: 28/04/2023.

Longueur d'impression: 108 pages.

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