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A critically acclaimed novelist pulls Nick Carraway out of the shadows and into the spotlight in this "masterful" look into his life before Gatsby (Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls and Chances Are).
Before Nick Carraway moved to West Egg and into Gatsby's periphery, he was at the center of a very different story-one 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 romance-doomed from the very beginning-to 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.
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In the summer of 1942, as war rages across Europe, a series of anonymous leaflets appears around the University of Munich, speaking out against escalating Nazi atrocities. The leaflets are hidden in public places, or mailed to addresses selected at random from the phone book. Natalya Petrovich, a student, knows who is behind the leaflets - a secret group called the White Rose, led by siblings Hans and Sophie Scholl and their friends. As a volunteer nurse on the Russian front, Natalya witnessed the horrors of war first-hand. She willingly enters the White Rose's circle....
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Not all the Germans are guilty.
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De: V.S. Alexander
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The Folded Leaf
- De: William Maxwell
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Here is a classic novel from one of our most honored writers - the author of such acclaimed works as So Long, See You Tomorrow and All the Days and Nights. The Folded Leaf is the serenely observed yet deeply moving story of two boys finding one another in the Midwest of the 1920s, when childhood lasted longer than it does today and even adults were more innocent of what life could bring.
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Midwestern Misfits
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Hellboy: Odd Jobs
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In 1994, Mike Mignola created one of the most unique and visually arresting comics series to ever see print: Hellboy. Tens of thousands have followed the exploits of the World's Greatest Paranormal Investigator in comics form and in prose. Now, fans of the comic can enjoy the world of Hellboy as seen through the eyes of some of the brightest creative lights in horror and mystery fiction.
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Sanctuary
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A powerful novel examining the nature of evil, informed by the works of T. S. Eliot and Freud, mythology, local lore, and hard-boiled detective fiction, Sanctuary is the dark, at times brutal, story of the kidnapping of Mississippi debutante Temple Drake. She introduces her own form of venality into the Memphis underworld where she is being held.
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Invisible Man
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Ralph Elllison's Invisible Man is a monumental novel, one that can well be called an epic of modern American Negro life. It is a strange story, in which many extraordinary things happen, some of them shocking and brutal, some of them pitiful and touching—yet always with elements of comedy and irony and burlesque that appear in unexpected places. It is a book that has a great deal to say and which is destined to have a great deal said about it.
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How Did This Escape Me?
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Night Life
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New York City, 1954. The Cold War is heating up, Senator Joe McCarthy is running a witch hunt for communists in America, the newly formed CIA is fighting a turf battle with the FBI to see who will be the primary United States intelligence agency, and the bodies of murdered young men are turning up all over the city.
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The Ballad of the Sad Café
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A classic work that has charmed generations of readers, this collection assembles Carson McCullers' best stories, including her beloved novella The Ballad of the Sad Cafe. A haunting tale of a human triangle that culminates in an astonishing brawl, the novella introduces readers to Miss Amelia, a formidable southern woman whose cafe serves as the town's gathering place. Among other fine works, the collection also includes "Wunderkind", McCullers' first published story, written when she was only 17, about a musical prodigy who suddenly realizes she will not go on to become a great pianist.
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The Great Glorious Goddamn of It All
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In the tiny timber town of Cordelia, Idaho, 99-year-old Weldon Applegate recounts his life in all its glory, filled with tall tales writ large with murder, mayhem, avalanches, and bootlegging. It’s the story of dark pine forests brewing with ancient magic, and Weldon’s struggle as a boy to keep his father’s inherited timber claim, the Lost Lot, from the ravenous clutches of Linden Laughlin.
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That was a pretty good story….
- De Linda en 10-02-21
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The Grand Dark
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From the best-selling author of the Sandman Slim series, a lush, dark, stand-alone fantasy built off the insurgent tradition of China Mieville and M. John Harrison - a subversive tale that immerses us in a world where the extremes of bleakness and beauty exist together in dangerous harmony in a city on the edge of civility and chaos. The Great War is over. The city of Lower Proszawa celebrates the peace with a decadence and carefree spirit as intense as the war’s horrifying despair.
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Kadrey does it again!
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A Time to Love and a Time to Die
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After two years at the Russian front, Ernst Graeber finally receives three weeks' leave. But since leaves have been canceled before, he decides not to write his parents, fearing he would just raise their hopes. Then, when Graeber arrives home, he finds his house bombed to ruin and his parents nowhere in sight. Nobody knows if they are dead or alive. As his leave draws to a close, Graeber reaches out to Elisabeth, a childhood friend.
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It’s a lot to take in.
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The 42nd Parallel
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This first entry in John Dos Passos's celebrated U.S.A. trilogy paints a grand picture of the United States at the dawn of the twentieth century.
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Powerful document of an all-too-familiar past
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We Begin at the End
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Duchess Day Radley is a 13-year-old self-proclaimed outlaw. Rules are for other people. She is the fierce protector of her five-year-old brother, Robin, and the parent to her mother, Star, a single mom incapable of taking care of herself, let alone her two kids. Walk has never left the coastal California town where he and Star grew up. He may have become the chief of police, but he’s still trying to heal the old wound of having given the testimony that sent his best friend, Vincent King, to prison decades before. And he's in overdrive protecting Duchess and her brother.
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Horrible narrator in this audible book
- De M. patton en 03-03-21
De: Chris Whitaker
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Nick
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- Aron K
- 02-12-24
Uneven
The early part was gripping but as characters and settings changed, it seemed to lack coherence and I lost interest in the last part and stopped listening.
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- Anonymous User
- 04-01-21
Great Start but Falls Flat
It starts off amazing but the New Orleans sub plot is weird and makes you lose interest. I wish the Paris love story continued.
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- PriBev
- 12-05-22
Wonderful and surprising.
Pleasantly deeper and different than expected. Really really really really just adding extra words for the box.
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- rick
- 02-10-21
doesn't match with Gatsby
this is an interesting story, but there is no way this character is the one that later appears in gatsby. stories just don't match up.
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- 01-13-21
Highly Recommend NICK
This novel explores the formative years of Nick Carraway, the narrator of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Farris Smith creates an imaginative backstory for Nick that travels from his hometown in Minnesota to WW1 Paris, Post-War New Orleans, back to the Midwest and then concludes with his arrival at the cottage in Long Island where Gatsby begins. His novel simultaneously pays homage to the tenor, tone and themes of Fitzgerald’s most famous work while inventively exploring Nick in his own voice. Highly recommend this 2021 release!
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- Josh
- 04-18-21
A story of Nick (but maybe not the one you want)
The Great Gatsby belongs to our culture, and it has for decades. Between those who read it for pleasure and those who read it for a Junior English credit and those who merely take it in through its virtual ubiquity in American popular culture, we are all at least conversant in Gatsby. Now, because of the expiration of the original copyright, the text of Fitzgerald’s classic belongs to the people as well. So we should prepare for a flood of all things Gatsby. Thankfully, the first project to result from the newly freed tale is a prequel introducing us to the pre-Gatsby life of Fitzgerald’s famously unreliable narrator. And if the premise is not intriguing enough, this new novel is penned by one of the best authors with whom far too many readers are unfamiliar, Michael Farris Smith.
Farris Smith is known for his tales from the American South, so I was incredibly interested in how he would move to a world beyond the South. Thankfully, he brings us to the South relatively quickly, but even more thankfully, his writing about a world beyond marshes, bayous, and kudzu entrenched landscapes is as engaging as his Southern tales.
Nick is a prequel in a number of ways. First, it is obviously about Nick before he met Jay Gatz and before he entered the bond market. But Gatsby is about more than Gatsby, it is about the world of the Roaring 20s, and Nick serves as a prequel to that as well. Before the decadence of the 20s was the desperation of WW1, and Farris Smith is superb at making the reader viscerally experience the desperation of his characters. This volume is no different. When I have read stories set in the WWI era, I have thought of them in black and white. The stories have always seemed distant, and that distance has provided a bit of relief as a reader. But Farris Smith presents the story, the events, the characters in a way that it is in “living color,” removing much of the distance and thus much of the safety. Farris Smith’s presentation of Nick’s time in Europe is thoroughly unsettling. He humanizes Nick and the men and women around him in a way that is best described as heartbreaking. The section focused on Nick’s time in Europe, with Parisian flashbacks interspersed in gritty war scenes, would translate beautifully to the screen, as well as radio theatre.
But it is when the novel shifts when Nick returns stateside that this tale takes off. Whereas the first section of the novel had a war novel feel, the later sections felt like a classic noir novel. The depravity of pre-prohibition New Orleans, the grit of certain scenes, and the whodunnit mystery set in bars, brothels, and back alleys had me sensing the presence of Raymond Chandler, William Faulkner, Cormac McCarthy, and others.
Farris Smith makes an interesting choice that I think was quite wise. Unlike Gatsby, Nick utilizes a third-person omniscient narrator. That choice opens up some story areas that would not be available otherwise, but it also alleviates Farris Smith of the burden on Fitzgerald’s prose. If he had chosen to utilize Nick as a narrator, the comparisons to Fitzgerald would be warranted, but since he writes his tale about Nick rather than through him, Farris Smith is able to write with his own style, a style that is super fun to read. Also, as opposed to letting Nick tell his own story, and have the reader question the validity of his story because of how Fitzgerald originally presented Nick, Farris Smith’s presentation makes the story feel genuine. This allows for a superb novel, but it also allows for a fresh reading of Gatsby.
But, we are not bound by Nick. It is misleading to call this fan fiction, but that is what it is to a degree. In as such, we should recognize that this is not the Nick story; it is a Nick story. And it is a very good one. Farris Smith gives us plenty of reasons to feel free to take this tale as a take on Nick but to hang on to enough skepticism about pre-Gatsby Nick to ensure that Fitzgerald’s unreliable narrator remains a virtual enigma, maintaining that aspect of pleasure when reading the original.
People are going to have strong opinions about this novel. Taking a story that is so universally known and adding your own voice to it is a risky proposition, but Farris Smith more than delivers. Sure, some Gatsby connections feel heavy-handed. And plenty of people are going to take issue with what Nick did and did not do in this tale. But, even if someone has never read a word of Fitzgerald, they can pick this book up and enjoy it. If someone has read and reread Gatsby, this will be a pleasurable trip into “what if,” even if they end up discarding Farris Smith’s backstory for the one they have built in their own minds. Regardless, this is a volume worth reading. I think Farris Smith shines most brightly when he is free from the constraints of a classic and is able to go wherever he wishes (Desperation Road, The Fighter, Blackwood, etc.), but I am comfortable saying that he took the idea of a Gatsby prequel and did as well with it as anyone could.
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- 03-31-21
Bleak
I had such high hopes for this book. I had to force myself to finish it. The author is a very good, descriptive writer, however this story was grim and skipped about without a purpose. I was unable to recognize Fitzgerald’s Nick in Smith’s Nick. It was as if Smith wrote the sad story of a man coming out of WW1 and then decided at the last minute to say it was the prequel to The Great Gatsby.
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- Larry
- 01-08-21
Misrepresentation
No spoilers. I normally don’t write reviews but I feel like this needs to be said. The reader was good. The story was fine. But it was not a story of Nick Carraway. I feel like the author had a story that he thought was decent but could not sell, so he threw Nick‘s name on it and a couple of Gatsby quotes, and added a last chapter to tie this previously existing story to Gatsby. What an easy way to make a few bucks, hitchhiking on the Gatsby name. If you want to hear about a WW1 soldier, the “lost generation” as Gertrude Stein called them, and of the events of his life immediately after the war, then this story is OK. But if you buy this book because you want insight into the character of Nick Carraway in The Great Gatsby you will be disappointed. Most of what we know about Nick Carraway’s background is replaced with an entirely different person. The Nick in the great Gatsby is a bit uptight. A Harvard man who would never introduce himself ot someone without someone else’s introduction, or at least and mutual acquaintance. The neck in the story is nowhere near that type of character.
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- Vincent F. O'Hara
- 02-11-21
Like a Rolling Stones Cover Band...
I wanted to like it, but the writing seemed forced, ringing hollow against the backdrop of F. Scott’s lyrical prose. Perhaps it was the performance that also left the writing flat. His tone/inflection was inconsistent which distracted from the story. Overall, this was one of my least enjoyable Audible experiences.
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-04-24
Disappointed
As a huge fan of The Great Gatsby, this was terrible. I went in thinking it would be a true prequel, and it did not hold true to Nick's character as Fitzgerald had appeared to portray him one bit.
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