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On the night of the May Day riots of 1919, F. Scott Fitzgerald crosses the velvet ropes of a Fifth Avenue ball with the raw streets below. Gordon Sterrett, a spent veteran turned starving artist, begs a favor from his glittering Yale friend Philip Dean-and tumbles into a night of drink, bad bargains, and irrevocable choice. Upstairs, Edith Bradin and the Gamma Psi crowd twirl beneath chandeliers at Delmonico's; outside, two luckless doughboys drift toward a mob and a fatal mistake. Between champagne and truncheons, between borrowed silk and threadbare pride, Fitzgerald lays bare the exhausted heart of the early Jazz Age: class cruelty, postwar disillusion, the price of beauty, and the ache of being left out.
Gid Newell's supple narration draws every line of contrast-the brittle charm of society banter, the sour bravado of the streets, and Gordon's mounting desperation-so you feel the throb of the drums and the cold of the dawn in the same breath. As dazzling as it is devastating, May Day is a bracing urban tragedy and a time-capsule of New York at the tipping point.
Perfect for listeners who love literary fiction with bite, American classics, and city-set dramas that move with cinematic urgency.
Gid Newell's supple narration draws every line of contrast-the brittle charm of society banter, the sour bravado of the streets, and Gordon's mounting desperation-so you feel the throb of the drums and the cold of the dawn in the same breath. As dazzling as it is devastating, May Day is a bracing urban tragedy and a time-capsule of New York at the tipping point.
Perfect for listeners who love literary fiction with bite, American classics, and city-set dramas that move with cinematic urgency.