The Great Gatsby by Fred Fordham

A Midwestern narrator moves to Long Island and becomes drawn into the glittering, morally hollow world of his enigmatic neighbor, a fabulously wealthy man who stages extravagant parties in hopes of rekindling a lost romance; as the narrator observes affairs, social ambition, and deception among the wealthy, the pursuit of an idealized past and the American Dream unravels into betrayal and tragedy.