# The Great Gatsby

- Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- First published: 1925
- Publisher: Vintage Classics
- This edition: 2021
- ISBN: 9780593311844
- Shelf: Tonight's Classic (one a night, from this pool); World Classics

## Card

A young bond salesman on Long Island watches his rich, mysterious neighbor pursue a woman from his past.  
The prose is short and lyrical, so a single summer of parties and heat passes in a few hours of reading.  
For a night with music across the water.  

## About this book

Nick Carraway moves east in 1922 and rents a small house beside the mansion of Jay Gatsby, whose parties draw hundreds of strangers. Nick's cousin Daisy lives across the bay with her husband Tom, and Gatsby has a reason for being so near. As Nick becomes a go-between, he sees both the glamour of the age and the carelessness behind it. The longing for a lost moment stays in the air long afterward.

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