num_pages: 292
description: Critically acclaimed novelist Michael Farris Smith pulls Nick Carraway out of the shadows and into the spotlight in this fascinating look into his life before Gatsby.Before Nick Carraway moved to West Egg and into Gatsby's periphery he was at the center of a very different storyone taking place along the trenches and deep within the tunnels of World War I.Floundering in the wake of the destruction he witnessed firsthand 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 romancedoomed from the very beginningto the dizzying frenzy of New Orleans rife with its own flavor 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 but few have pondered deeply. Charged with enough alcohol heartbreak and profound yearning to paralyze even the heartiest of golden age scribes Nick reveals the man behind the narrator who has captivated readers for decades.
language: English
title: Nick
publisher: Little, Brown and Company