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COM.ONIXSUITE.9781611457230 03 01 Arcade Publishing 01 GCOI 55970100128110 01 SKU 611723 02 1611457238 03 9781611457230 15 9781611457230 11 BB 1 A01 Richards, Jonathan Jonathan Richards <b>Jonathan Richards</b> is an author,journalist, actor, and cartoonist. His movie reviews appear weekly in the <i>Santa Fe New Mexican</i> and online. He is amember of the Online Film Critics Society. His political cartoons are seenregularly in the Huffington Post. He illustrated Alan Arkin’s children’sbook <i>Cosmo</i>.He lives in Santa Fe, NewMexico, with his wife, ClaudiaJessup, who is a successful novelist under the name Meredith Rich. 2 A01 Richards, Tad Tad Richards <b>Tad Richards</b> isthe author of seventeen novels and various books of nonfiction and poetry. Hehas written plays, screenplays and songs (most recently “Banks of the Hudson,”on an album by singer/Congressman John Hall). 01 eng 256 00 256 03 03 0 03 FIC000000 01 <p>America in 1953 seems hell-bent on squandering the floodtide of international goodwill earned in WWII. Senator Joe McCarthy is on ared-hunting rampage in Washington, and the fledgling CIA under Allen Dulles isstarting to dabble in nation-building.</p><p>Into this moment of historywander Nick Carraway and Jake Barnes, refugees from Fitzgerald's <em>The Great Gatsby</em> and Hemingway's <em>The Sun Also Rises</em>. They begin acorrespondence that leads to a close friendship, and widens to include abizarre cast of characters. From the classic fiction of the period come Larry Darrell (<em>The Razor's Edge</em>), Alden Pyle (<em>The Quiet American</em>), Lady Brett Ashleyand Robert Cohn (<em>The Sun Also Rises</em>), and from real life, Roy Cohn (Robert'snephew) and his pal Davey Schine, Roy's boss Joe McCarthy, the Dulles brothers,the Weavers, French intellectuals Sartre and De Beauvoir, Iranian premier Dr.Mohammed Mossadegh, novelist Jackie Susann, music moguls Jerry Wexler and Ahmed Ertegun, and sex-change pioneer Christine Jorgensen. Jakediscovers a CIA plot to cause a coup in France, and Nick and Jake must do their best tosave their country from itself whileaffairs of the heart change both of their lives and teach them lessons aboutlife and love. <em>Nick & Jake</em> findsthe uproarious comic potential in a chilling period of American history thathas alarming echoes in our own.</p> 02 In the comic tradition of Catch-22, the protagonists of Hemingway andFitzgerald... 08 “<em>Nick & Jake</em> isa hysterical stroll through the cold war era with many of the most colorful charactersof that time . . . It is a wonderful tale of American expatriates dabbling inbig power intrigue without ever forsaking the three-martini lunch” Joseph C. Wilson 08 “Goofy, funny and full of literary in-jokes. . . this is a rollicking good read.” Kirkus Star Review 04 03 72 01 http://www.arcadepub.com/resources/titles/55970100128110/images/55970100128110L.jpg 07 03 72 01 http://www.arcadepub.com/resources/titles/55970100128110/images/55970100128110S.jpg http://www.arcadepub.com/book/?GCOI=55970100128110 Arcade Publishing 01 Skyhorse Publishing 04 20120901 02 AG AI AN AR AS AU AW BB BM BO BR BS BZ CL CN CO CR CU DM DO EC FK GD GF GP GT GU GY HK HN HT ID JM JP KH KN TF KY LA LC MM MP MQ MS MX MY NI NZ PA PE PH PR PY SG SR SV TC TH TT TW US UY VC VE VG VI VN 03 ROW 01 0.9283446 in 02 0.6388608 in 03 0.1098042 in 07 6300065 National Book Company, Inc. http://www.wwnorton.com 02 WORLD AD AE AF AG AI AL AM AO CC AT AU AW AZ BA BB BD BE BF BG BH BI BJ BN BT RS BW BY CA CX AQ CF CG CH CI CK CM CU CV GS CY CZ DE DJ DK DM DZ EE EG EH ER ES ES ET FI FJ FK FM FO FR GA GB GB GB GD GE GF GH GI GL GM GN GQ GR IO GW GY KP HR HT HU IE IL IN MO IQ IR IS IT JM JO KE KG KI KM KN KW KY KZ LB LC LI LK LR LS LT LU LV LY MA MC MD MG MH UM ML MM MN YT MQ MR MS MT MU MV MW MZ NA NC NE NF NG NL NL NO NP NR NU OM PA PF PF PG PG PK PL PM PN PT PW QA RE RO RU RU RW SA SB SC SD SE SH SI SJ SK SL SM SN SO SR ST SY SZ TC TD BL TG TJ TK TM TN TO TR TT TV TZ UA UG UZ VA VC VG VU WF WS YE IM ZA ZM ZW ZW 02 Y 21 24 01 02 24.95 USD