num_pages: 448
description: Jack Lambeau is the prodigal son returned home to Lakeland, New York; the Ivy-League educated architectural visionary brought home to reinvent the dying port town and smooth over its self-imposed scars. His friend, Steven Turner is the Brooklyn-born local reporter who will bear witness to the city's successes and failures. Between them come Jack's beautiful fiancee Anne--an artist with secrets of her own - and his undisciplined brother Harris, hired by Jack to remove the suspicious barrels of waste from Lakeland's broken heart.As the town struggles to find a new identity, these four characters must find their way through their own unexpected transformations and along the way attempt to answer the questions that plague us all: what is the price of loyalty, filialty, goodness and love?
language: English
title: The Last Good Chance
titlecomplete: The Last Good Chance
genres: Fiction, American, Novels
ratings_count: 160
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: California Book Award
category: First Fiction (Silver)
publisher: Picador