{"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Guernica Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50727564247314,"sku":"9781771838870","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_508ea15d-1bad-4534-a9e6-ff151e89757d.jpg?v=1734913577","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-last-green-light-9781771838870","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}