{"product_id":"9781628723205","title":"Nick and Jake: An Epistolary Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmerica in 1953 seems hell-bent on squandering the flood tide of international goodwill earned in WWII. Senator Joe McCarthy is on a red-hunting rampage in Washington, and the fledgling CIA under Allen Dulles is starting to dabble in nation-building.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInto this moment of history wander Nick Carraway and Jake Barnes, refugees from Fitzgerald’s \u003ci\u003eThe Great Gatsby\u003c\/i\u003e and Hemingway’s \u003ci\u003eThe Sun Also Rises\u003c\/i\u003e. They begin a correspondence that leads to a close friendship, and widens to include a bizarre cast of characters. From the classic fiction of the period come Larry Darrell (\u003ci\u003eThe Razor's Edge\u003c\/i\u003e), Alden Pyle (\u003ci\u003eThe Quiet American\u003c\/i\u003e), Lady Brett Ashley and Robert Cohn (\u003ci\u003eThe Sun Also Rises\u003c\/i\u003e), and from real life, Roy Cohn (Robert’s nephew) and his pal Davey Schine, Roy’s boss Joe McCarthy, French intellectuals Sartre and de Beauvoir, Iranian premier Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh, and sex-change pioneer Christine Jorgensen. Jake discovers a CIA plot to cause a coup in France, and Nick and Jake must do their best to save their country from itself while affairs of the heart change both of their lives. \u003ci\u003eNick \u0026amp; Jake\u003c\/i\u003e finds the uproarious comic potential in a chilling period of American history that has alarming echoes in our own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSkyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Arcade Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47049260892400,"sku":"9781628723205","price":10.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781628723205_p0.jpg?v=1763870162","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781628723205","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}