Nick by Michael Farris Smith (2021)
Nick Carraway before West Egg: the trenches, Paris and New Orleans.
Nick says little about the war he came back from. Follow him through it, before he ever meets Gatsby.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: Nick Carraway.
Changes: the time and place. It follows Nick through the trenches and tunnels of the First World War, a doomed romance in Paris and the violent world of New Orleans, before he moves to West Egg.
Whose story is it?
Nick’s, before he became a narrator.
How much time does it ask?
304 pages in Little, Brown’s paperback.
Little, Brown: a prequel that follows Nick Carraway from the trenches of the First World War, before he moves to West Egg.
Where to find it
Buy the paperback — Bookshop.org
Other ways to get it: Paperback — Amazon · Ebook — Kobo · Kindle — Amazon
Borrow it free: Borrow on Libby · Find at your library — WorldCat
More ways into West Egg: The Scribner paperback (“The Only Authorized Edition”) · The Penguin Classics edition, introduction by Min Jin Lee · The Norton Critical Edition, ed. David Alworth