06/07/2025
Heading out to show some love to Mr. Kyff!
Veteran KO teacher Rob Kyff will be signing copies of his new book “Gatsby’s Secrets: The Hidden Motifs, Moments and Metaphors That Shaped Fitzgerald’s Masterpiece” from 3 p.m. - 5 p.m. tomorrow, Saturday, June 7, at Barnes and Noble in Blue Back Square in West Hartford during the town’s Celebrate West Hartford event. Also, be sure to stop by the KO booth ( #216) while you're there to say hi!
“Gatsby’s Secrets,” priced at $15, describes how Fitzgerald weaves thematic elements as disparate as water, vision, ghosts, numbers, and stars into the fabric of the novel’s meaning; how secondary characters parallel the main characters, contributing essential perspectives and comic relief; and how Fitzgerald chooses words precisely to craft the exquisite, rhapsodic passages that have been called “touchstones of American prose.”
