NICK AND JAKE

Literary satire in the tradition of Catch-22 and the spirit of “Midnight in Paris,” NICK AND JAKE features refugee characters from Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises.

Nick Carraway and Jake Barnes begin a correspondence that leads to a close friendship and widens to include a bizarre cast of characters. America in 1953 is squandering the international goodwill earned in WWII; Senator Joe McCarthy is on a Red-hunting rampage; the CIA under Allen Dulles is a monster being born. Nick and Jake must do their best to save their country from itself while affairs of the heart change both of their lives. Hilarious, raunchy, and deliciously subversive, this ingenious novel finds the uproarious comic potential in a chilling period of American history that has alarming echoes in our own.