Newsday: 'The Great Gatsby' at 100: Long Island's Gold Coast is backdrop for Fitzgerald's classic American novel 'The Great Gatsby' at 100: Long Island's Gold Coast is backdrop for Fitzgerald's classic American novel "The Great Gatsby," a century old this month, packs a lot into its 180 pages: love, death, money and the American dream, unfolding primarily, its narrator recounts, in "one of the strangest ...