The Last Green Light

By: Foy, George

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1771838876
• ISBN13: 9781771838870
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: Guernica Editions
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"