The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Nick Carraway enters the orbit of Jay Gatsby, whose wealth and elaborate parties conceal a longing to recover his relationship with Daisy Buchanan. F. Scott Fitzgerald places private aspiration within the inequalities of 1920s America.
Read it for the tension between hope and possession. The novel asks when devotion to a dream becomes a refusal to recognize another person or accept the passage of time.
Cover shown: Vintage paperback, ISBN 9780593311844. The purchase option below is a different edition: the Scribner ebook, ISBN 9780743246392, with an introduction by Jesmyn Ward.
