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The Last Green Light

George FoySeries: Guernica World Editions
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Year
2024
Language
English
Publisher
Guernica Editions

About

The Great Gatsby is known for the glitz and glamour of Gilded Age plutocrats; in The Last Green Light, the working people of Fitzgerald's novel get to tell their own, beautifully textured tale. Meet Jon Laine, a Midwesterner who captains one of the rumrunning boats that are the source of Gatsby's great wealth; enter a colorful netherworld of diner cooks, dump scavengers, secretaries, deckhands and car mechanics caught in the increasingly deadly conflict between organized crime syndicates, amid the murderous passions of caste-busting love. From movie stars to dark freighters, Wobblies to Harlem nightclubs The Last Green Light, like a jazz improvisation, riffs on a great American novel, creating its own, unique world in the process.

Related Subjects

  • Action & Adventure
  • Adult Fiction
  • 20th Century
  • American
  • World Literature

Extended Details

  • SeriesGuernica World Editions

    Reviews

    "America's love affair with gangsters didn't start with The Great Gatsby and doesn't look like it's ending soon. Fitzgerald's novel and the party-throwing icon at its centre are set like a dazzling jewel on the forehead of Modern Fiction. But that is only one side of paradise, and in The Last Green Light, George Foy takes us on a thrilling, beautifully written ride through another, darker side. Ho
    Giles Blunt, author of the Cardinal series (novels and TV)
    "If The Great Gatsby had a subconscious it would be this lovely, often poetic novel, in which working people pull the mask off "Gilded Age" New York City to reveal the violence and exploitation underlying the 1920s American dream. A must-read."
    Thomas H. Cook, Edgar-winning author of Red Leaves and The Chatham School Affair
    "[Foy is] a storyteller who, like Conrad, can compress into a tale you can't put down all the complexities of a time and place."
    Doris Lessing, winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature

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    George FoyAuthor