Tag: Denis Johnson

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Monte Shulz
Literary

Monte Schulz’s Beautiful Jazz Age Tragedy in ‘Crossing Eden’

Monte Schulz’s literary novel Crossing Eden (Fantagraphics Books), sweeps across the Midwestern U.S. landscape through the story of a family pulled apart in the Jazz Age summer of 1929. A failed businessman, seduced by city lights and the dream of wealth and power, divides himself from his wife and children, while a troubled farm boy runs away from home in the company of a gangster.