The Great Gatsby
Vintage Classics · first published 1925 · 192 pages
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.