The Last Green Light
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‘If The Great Gatsby had a subconscious, it would be this lovely, often poetic novel”
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"The Great Gatsby is known for the glitz and glamor of Gilded Age plutocrats. In The Last Green Light, the working people of Fitzgerald’s novel get to tell their own, beautifully textured tale. Guided by Jon Laine, a Midwesterner and disillusioned union activist who captains one of the rum-running boats that keep Gatsby’s world afloat, we enter a netherworld of diner cooks, dump scavengers, sultry secretaries, and garage mechanics caught in a war between bootlegging syndicates, amid the dangerous passions of caste-busting love. From movie stars to black 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."
(From the jacket copy)