NICK
by Michael Farris Smith
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Pub Date 25 Feb 2021 | Archive Date 25 Feb 2021
Oldcastle Books | No Exit Press
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Description
Critically acclaimed novelist Michael Farris Smith pulls Nick Carraway out of the shadows and into the spotlight in this exhilarating imagination of his life before The Great Gatsby
Before Nick Carraway moved to West Egg and into Gatsby’s world, he was at the centre of a very different story – one taking place along the trenches and deep within the tunnels of World War I.
Floundering in the wake of the destruction he witnessed first-hand, Nick delays his return home, hoping to escape the questions he cannot answer about the horrors of war. Instead, he embarks on a transcontinental redemptive journey that takes him from a whirlwind Paris romance – doomed from the very beginning – to the dizzying frenzy of New Orleans, rife with its own flavour of debauchery and violence.
An epic portrait of a truly singular era and a sweeping, romantic story of self-discovery, this rich and imaginative novel breathes new life into a character that many know only from the periphery. Charged with enough alcohol, heartbreak, and profound yearning to transfix even the heartiest of golden age scribes, NICK reveals the man behind the narrator who has captivated readers for decades.
Advance Praise
'Stylish, evocative, haunting and wholly original' - Chris Whitaker, author of We Begin at the End
'Anybody who believes that the war is over when the enemy surrenders and the troops come home needs to read Michael Farris Smith's masterful new novel NICK. Its stark, unvarnished truth will haunt you' - Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Empire Falls
'A dark and often gripping story that imagines the narrator of The Great Gatsby in the years before that book began...The new Nick is a man fully realized, with a mind tormented by the war and by a first love that waned too fast to a fingernail moon of bitter memory. A compelling character study and a thoroughly unconventional prequel' - Kirkus Reviews
'The title figure of Nick offers a soul for the ages, one that finally and deftly slips into the canon' - Jeffrey Lent, NYT bestselling author of In the Fall
'Nick is, sentence by sentence, scene by scene, an atmospheric masterpiece of imagination and prose' - Patti Callahan, New York Times bestselling author of Becoming Mrs. Lewis
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Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9780857304544 |
| PRICE | £12.99 (GBP) |
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