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Nick Carraway picks up the phone and finds himself listening to a message intended for Gatsby. It is a taste of his dead friend's real life. Some nameless crook is on the line. "'Young Parke's in trouble,' he said rapidly. 'They picked him up when he handed the bonds over the counter'." When Nick says he is not Gatsby, he hears a long silence, followed by an exclamation, "then a quick squawk as the connection was broken".
The Great Gatsby appears among Tad Friend's seven best novels about WASPs, Kate Atkinson's top ten novels, Garrett Peck's best books about Prohibition, Robert McCrum's top ten books for Obama officials, Jackie Collins' six best books, and John Krasinski's six best books, and is on the American Book Review's list of the 100 best last lines from novels.
--Marshal Zeringue
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