{"product_id":"the-last-green-light-9781771838870","title":"The Last Green Light","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Great Gatsby\u003c\/i\u003e is known for the glitz and glamour of Gilded Age plutocrats; in \u003ci\u003eThe Last Green Light, \u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-16515229\"\u003eGeorge Foy\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Guernica Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 250\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.63lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.99h x 6.04w x 0.51d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781771838870\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1771838876\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC002000\"\u003eAction \u0026amp; Adventure\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC084030\"\u003eWorld Literature | American | 20th Century\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e George Michelsen Foy is the author of thirteen novels. His short fiction and essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eEp;phany Journal, Washington Square Review, Monkey Bicycle, Apeiron, Notre Dame Review, American Literary Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and other journals; and his long-form non-fiction has been published in \u003ci\u003eHarper's, Rolling Stone, Men's Journal, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSlate.\u003c\/i\u003e Of his novel \u003ci\u003eTo Sleep with Ghosts \u003c\/i\u003e(Bantam \/ Doubleday), Nobel prize-winner Doris Lessing wrote, \"[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.\" His non-fiction books include \u003ci\u003eRun the Storm (\u003c\/i\u003eScribner \/ Simon \u0026amp; Schuster, 2018) and \u003ci\u003eFinding North: How navigation makes us human (\u003c\/i\u003eFlatiron \/ Macmillan, 2016). GM Foy was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in fiction, and has won a Joe Gouveia Poetry Prize as well as awards in \u003ci\u003eEp;phany Journal\u003c\/i\u003e's, \u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 's, \u003ci\u003eFiction Factory\u003c\/i\u003e's and \u003ci\u003eCutthroat Journal\u003c\/i\u003e's short-story contests. Foy lives in southeastern New England and Brooklyn and teaches writing at NYU. At various times in a checkered career he was smuggled into Afghanistan with a rebel patrol and witnessed bombing raids on guerrilla camps in Central Africa; he also worked as a factory-hand, agricultural laborer, commercial fisherman, watchkeeping officer on British tramp freighters, and as chief cream-pastry transporter for a cakes factory in West London. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Guernica Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47359272386797,"sku":"9781771838870","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/files\/img_62accb66-3fd0-48fa-a525-20ab036593fb.jpg?v=1731675276","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/the-last-green-light-9781771838870","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}