MICHAEL FARRIS SMITH MARKETING & SALES POINTS Michael Farris Smith imagines the life of Nick Carraway, the narrator of F Scott Fitzgerald's landmark novel, , which has sold almost 30 million copies, in this acclaimed 'prequel' that is destined to become a classic

September 2021 marks the 125th anniversary of F Scott Fitzgerald's birth

The hardback edition of NICK garnered blanket coverage across the national press, including reviews in the Times, Sunday Times, Mail, Mail on Sunday, Scotsman, Herald, Irish Times, New York Times, Literary Review, Strong Words and Saga magazine

Michael was interviewed about the novel in and Time magazine and on BBC Radio 4 Front Row and BBC World Service, and features about the novel ran in the Independent and i

Michael Farris Smith's previous novel Blackwood was selected as a Times Book of the Year THE BOOK Critically acclaimed novelist Michael Farris Smith pulls Nick Carraway out of the shadows and into the spotlight in this exhilarating imagination of his life before The Great Gatsby Download high resolution image Before Nick Carraway moved to West Egg and into Gatsby's world, he was at the centre of a very different Pub. Date: 24 September 2021 story - one taking place along the trenches and deep within the tunnels of World War I. Price: £8.99 Floundering in the wake of the destruction he witnessed first-hand, Nick delays his return home, hoping to ISBN: 978-0-85730-453-7 escape the questions he cannot answer about the horrors of war. Instead, he embarks on a transcontinental Binding: Paperback redemptive journey that takes him from a whirlwind Paris romance - doomed from the very beginning - to the Format: B (198 x 129mm) dizzying frenzy of New Orleans, rife with its own flavour of debauchery and violence. Extent: 320 An epic portrait of a truly singular era and a sweeping, romantic story of self-discovery, this rich and Weight: imaginative novel breathes new life into a character that many know only from the periphery. Charged Publishing UK & Commonwealth only, excl. Canada with enough alcohol, heartbreak, and profound yearning to transfix even the heartiest of golden age Rights: scribes, Nick reveals the man behind the narrator who has captivated readers for decades. Sales Exclusive: UK & Commonwealth excl. Rights: Canada. Open Market: RoW. excl. North America PRAISE FOR NICK Market: Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, War Fiction 'Eminently readable' - Times BIC Code: FJMF: First World War fiction 'No shortage of excitement' - Mail on Sunday FV: Historical fiction FC: Classic fiction (pre c 1945) 'Smith is a well-respected writer with a gift for creating atmosphere'' - Telegraph BISAC Code: FIC032000: Fiction : War & Military FIC019000: Fiction : Literary 'Smith is an accomplished writer of Southern gothic fiction' - Sunday Times FIC014040: Fiction : Historical : World War I 'Gripping… the novel rings fiercely true' - Financial Times FIC027220: Fiction : Romance : Military THEMA Code: FJMF: First World War fiction 'Vividly imagined and suffused with pulsing narrative energy and an assured, atmospheric sense of FBC: Classic fiction FV: Historical fiction period setting and speech' - Irish Times Country of UK Manufacture: 'Great warmth and humanity… An admirable book: atmospheric, haunting, rich in detail and incident' - Literary Review Rpt. Code: IP 'Vivid, visual, strong, poetic' - Herald Scotland Previous 978-0-85730-454-4 (hb) ISBNs: 'Evocative, rich in detail and memorable. You cannot help but think of Gatsby when reading Smith's Marketing & PR Tel: 01582 766 348 sensitively written tale… A book to read and reread' - Belfast Telegraph [email protected]

No Exit Press UK Distribution: Turnaround MICHAEL FARRIS SMITH (Location: Oxford, USA) Harpenden 3 Olympia Trading Estate Herts AL5 1EQ Coburg Rd Michael Farris Smith is the author of Blackwood, The Fighter, Desperation Tel: +44 (0)1582 766348 London N22 6TZ Road, Rivers, and The Hands of Strangers. He has been awarded the Tel: +44 (0)208 829 3000 www.turnaround-uk.com Author Award for Fiction, Transatlantic Review Award, and Brick Streets Press Story Award. His novels have appeared on Best of the Year lists with Esquire, Southern noexit.co.uk/noexit.co.uk/ @noexitpress Living, Book Riot, and numerous others, and have been named Indie Next List, 2 Barnes & Noble Discover, and Amazon Best of the Month selections. He has been a finalist for the Southern Book Prize, the Gold Dagger Award in the UK, and the Grand Prix des Lectrices in , and his essays have appeared with , Bitter Southerner, Garden & Gun, and more. He lives with his wife and daughters in Oxford, Mississippi. OTHER TITLES BY MICHAEL FARRIS SMITH

Desperation Road The Fighter Blackwood 978-1-84344-991-1 978-1-84344-994-2 978-0-85730-406-3

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