"Nick Carraway Nick Carraway is a fictional character and the main protagonist and narrator in F. Scott Fitzgerald's ""The Great Gatsby"" (1925). In his narration, Nick Carraway explains that he was born in the Middle West, and served in World War I. After the war, he moves to West Egg, a wealthy enclave of Long Island, from the Middle West to learn about the bond business. He lives near his cousin, Daisy Buchanan, and her wealthy husband Tom, who was Nick's classmate at Yale University. They introduce him to their friend Jordan Baker, a cynical young heiress and professional golfer,"
"Nick Harkaway Nick Harkaway (born 1972) is a British novelist and commentator. He is the author of the novels ""The Gone-Away World,"" ""Angelmaker,"" ""Tigerman,"" and ""Gnomon""; and a non-fiction study of the digital world, ""The Blind Giant: Being Human in a Digital World"". Harkaway was born Nicholas Cornwell in Cornwall, England. He is the son of Valérie Jane Eustace and author John le Carré. Harkaway was educated at the independent University College School in North London, and Clare College, Cambridge, where he studied philosophy, sociology and politics and took up Shorinji Kan Jiu Jitsu. He worked in the film industry"
"Memoirs of an Invisible Man Memoirs of an Invisible Man is a 1987 science fiction novel by H. F. Saint. Nicholas Halloway is a 34-year-old Manhattan securities analyst who writes a narrative memoir (presumably this book) of his life starting on the day of an accident which renders him invisible. He recounts his involvement in a romantic affair with Anne Epstein, a woman who has taken interest in his aptitude for business and is a reporter for the ""Times"". He escorts her to MicroMagnetics where scientists are holding a press conference for research on the magnetic containment of a nuclear"
"society's very nature. ""The Blind Giant"" (2012), Harkaway's first work of non-fiction, dealt with the effect of digital change on society and what it means to be human. Harkaway has been an outspoken critic of the Google Book Search Settlement Agreement, posting on his blog, speaking out on BBC Radio’s The World at One in May 2009, and appearing on a television debate with Krishnan Guru-Murthy and Tom Watson MP in September 2009. Nick Harkaway Nick Harkaway (born 1972) is a British novelist and commentator. He is the author of the novels ""The Gone-Away World,"" ""Angelmaker,"" ""Tigerman,"" and ""Gnomon""; and"
"Callendar says this novel ""moves alertly along, has all the flavor and exoticism one associates with Mr. Hillerman and is one of the best in the series."" The Ghostway The Ghostway is the sixth crime fiction novel in the Joe Leaphorn / Jim Chee Navajo Tribal Police series by Tony Hillerman. It was first published in 1984 and features Jim Chee. A gunfight at a laundromat in Shiprock NM brings Los Angeles problems to the Navajo reservation. The novel was reviewed positively at its publication. ""The tension between the Navajo way-of-life and the tempting white-world outside. . . is central"
"everything he wanted, even as she led him toward everything he despised. In her book ""Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby"" (2013), Sarah Churchwell speculates that parts of the ending of ""The Great Gatsby"" were based on the Hall-Mills Case. Based on her forensic search for clues, she asserts that the two victims in the Hall-Mills murder case inspired the characters who were murdered in ""The Great Gatsby"". In the summer of 1922, Nick Caraway, a Yale graduate and veteran of the Great War from the Midwest—who serves as the novel's narrator—takes a job in"
"of quickly written ""spontaneous prose"". ""The Town and the City"" was written before Kerouac had developed his own style, and it is heavily influenced by Thomas Wolfe (even down to the title, reminiscent of Wolfe titles such as ""The Web and the Rock""). The novel is focused on two locations (as suggested by the title): one, the early Beat Generation circle of New York in the late 1940s, the other, the nearly rural small town of Galloway, Massachusetts that the main character comes from, before going off to college on a football scholarship. Galloway represents the town of Lowell, Massachusetts,"
"during the early to middle 1980s. The novel has been compared to Anthony Powell's ""A Dance to the Music of Time"", with special regard to Powell's character Nicholas Jenkins. The protagonist has also been likened to Nick Carraway in F. Scott Fitzgerald's ""The Great Gatsby"". James Wood, writing for ""The New Republic"", praised the novel, calling it ""an ample and sophisticated delight, charged with hundreds of delicate impressions and insights, and scores of vital and lovely sentences"", although he criticized the ending as a ""somewhat trite and anachronistic vision of the homosexual as a figure always doomed to be unhoused"
"million USD for both book-club rights and the filming rights, won after a bidding war by Warner Bros. The film version, released in 1992 had less success than the book, being a box office bomb with negative reviews. Memoirs of an Invisible Man Memoirs of an Invisible Man is a 1987 science fiction novel by H. F. Saint. Nicholas Halloway is a 34-year-old Manhattan securities analyst who writes a narrative memoir (presumably this book) of his life starting on the day of an accident which renders him invisible. He recounts his involvement in a romantic affair with Anne Epstein, a"
"The Ghostway The Ghostway is the sixth crime fiction novel in the Joe Leaphorn / Jim Chee Navajo Tribal Police series by Tony Hillerman. It was first published in 1984 and features Jim Chee. A gunfight at a laundromat in Shiprock NM brings Los Angeles problems to the Navajo reservation. The novel was reviewed positively at its publication. ""The tension between the Navajo way-of-life and the tempting white-world outside. . . is central and emphatic"" in this novel. The central character ""Chee is developed to greater depth than before"", though that reviewer felt that the three novels featuring Leaphorn (first"
"The Conversations at Curlow Creek The Conversations at Curlow Creek is a historical novel written by the prominent Australian author David Malouf. It was first published in 1996 by the Random House publishing group. The story takes place in 1827 on an isolated farm at the fictional locality of Curlow Creek in the mountains of the colony of New South Wales. The two main characters are Michael Adair, an Irish-born officer in the colonial mounted troopers, and Daniel Carney, an Irish escapee and bushranger. Adair had been dispatched from Sydney to oversee Carney's hanging and he arrives at Carney's temporary"
"hero. The Conversations at Curlow Creek The Conversations at Curlow Creek is a historical novel written by the prominent Australian author David Malouf. It was first published in 1996 by the Random House publishing group. The story takes place in 1827 on an isolated farm at the fictional locality of Curlow Creek in the mountains of the colony of New South Wales. The two main characters are Michael Adair, an Irish-born officer in the colonial mounted troopers, and Daniel Carney, an Irish escapee and bushranger. Adair had been dispatched from Sydney to oversee Carney's hanging and he arrives at Carney's"
"protagonist Nick Carraway to read in his famous novel ""The Great Gatsby"", and had the character pronounce ""Either it was terrible stuff or the whiskey distorted things, because it didn't make sense to me."" The book's sequel, ""Recompense"", was optioned as a film by Warner Brothers, starring Marie Prevost and Monte Blue. Keable himself found the screenplay so altered from the original text, he wryly proposed that he write another novel based on it. His first visit to the United States, in autumn 1924, was announced in the ""New York Times""; he took in a production of the ""Simon Called"
"and privileged man who practices law, more as a means to support his playboy lifestyle than a career. Carr is sent to Nice, France, where he has notable political connections, but is mistaken for an assassin and finds his life in jeopardy, implicated in the world of terrorism. In 1968, he published two novels, ""Easy Go"" and ""A Case of Need"", the second of which was re-published in 1993, under his real name. ""Easy Go"" relates the story of Harold Barnaby, a brilliant Egyptologist, who discovers a concealed message while translating hieroglyphics, informing him of an unnamed pharaoh whose tomb"
"The Scarecrow (Connelly novel) The Scarecrow is a 2009 novel written by American author Michael Connelly. It was Connelly's 21st book (20th novel) and the second featuring as the main character Jack McEvoy, a reporter now living in Los Angeles, and FBI agent Rachel Walling. As a result, the novel is a sequel to the events in Connelly's 1996 book ""The Poet"", although another Connelly novel, ""The Narrows"", was published in 2004 as the ""official"" sequel to ""The Poet"". The book was published in the UK and Ireland on May 12, 2009, and in the US and Canada on May"
"The Gone-Away World The Gone-Away World is a science fiction novel set in a post-apocalyptic world crippled by the 'Go-Away War'. First published in June 2008 by Heinemann, it is the first novel written by Nick Harkaway. The book is written from the perspective of a single character, part of a group of ex-special operatives turned truckers that collectively make up the 'Haulage & HazMat Emergency Civil Freebooting Company'. The story largely focuses on the lives of the narrator and that of his best friend, a member of the company. The book is a science-fiction epic with fantasy and comedy"
"draped in codes and clues that leave the reader speculating what will come of the relationship between Anna and the narrator. His second novel, ""The 39 Deaths of Adam Strand"", which follows a summer in the life of a boy named Adam Strand, who, no matter how hard he tries, cannot die, was published by Dutton in February 2013. Galloway currently lives in Hoboken, New Jersey with his wife. </div> Gregory Galloway Gregory Galloway is an American fiction writer. His first novel, ""As Simple as Snow"", was released by Putnam in 2005. Though the book was meant for an adult"
"and the missing Northrop Gamma. Other people, with tremendous resources are also searching – and will kill to prevent the truth of a 40 year old incident to emerge. Flyaway (novel) Flyaway is a first person narrative thriller novel by English author Desmond Bagley, first published in 1978. It introduces Max Stafford as protagonist, who would later appear in Bagley's novel, ""Windfall"". Max Stafford is owner and president of a security consultation company based in London, which specializes in corporate security and anti-industrial espionage. Although his company is successful, his marriage has collapsed, and work is starting to lose its"
"San Francisco, he drunkenly embarrasses Cody by introducing Billie to Cody's wife, cannot emotionally provide for the increasingly demanding Billie, and finds himself increasingly unable to integrate into suburban life. Duluoz's inner turmoil culminates in his nervous breakdown during his third journey to Big Sur. An addendum to the book contains Kerouac's poem ""Sea: Sounds of the Pacific Ocean at Big Sur"". Kerouac often based his fictional characters on friends and family. A film adaptation of the novel, directed by Michael Polish, was released in 2013. The cast includes Jean-Marc Barr as Kerouac, Josh Lucas as Neal Cassady, Radha Mitchell"
"is a summary of some of the events in the book that could be considered the most relevant. The book begins with the adventures of William Lee (also known as ""Lee the Agent""), who is Burroughs' alter ego in the novel. His journey starts in the U.S. where he is fleeing the police in search of his next fix. There are short chapters describing the different characters he travels with and meets along the way. Eventually he gets to Mexico where he is assigned to Dr. Benway; for what, he is not told. Benway appears and he tells about his"
"second book before she had completed ""Mosaic"", which became ""Pathways"". These two novels are the only ones to have been considered canon alongside the live-action television episodes and films, and elements of ""Mosaic"" were placed by Taylor into the series prior to publishing and continued to be incorporated afterwards. The USS ""Voyager"" is in a Nebula, avoiding a Kazon warship. Meanwhile, Lt. Tuvok is leading an away team on a planet's surface and Captain Kathryn Janeway must choose between saving her ship or the team and her friend. During this time, she reminisces about her childhood and her career in"
"occurrence is prominent in the structures and character relationships of two further novels by Cunningham, Specimen Days and A Home at the End of the World. The Hours (novel) The Hours is a 1998 novel written by Michael Cunningham. It won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the 1999 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and was later made into an Oscar-winning 2002 movie of the same name starring Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore. The book concerns three generations of women affected by the classic novel ""Mrs. Dalloway"". In Richmond, 1923, author Virginia Woolf is writing ""Mrs. Dalloway"" and struggling"
"that of others. In this way, Salaway's fiction may reflect the same zeitgeist that produced many of the most cerebral television scripts of the late 1950s and early 1960s such as those of Rod Serling (""The Twilight Zone"", etc.) and Gene Roddenberry (""Have Gun, Will Travel"", etc.). Salaway's final novel as Al Fray, 1960's ""The Dame's the Game,"" involves a lawman of sorts—a Las Vegas casino house detective—who leaves legitimacy behind in the name of vengeance. Notes on the cover of that book refer to it as ""A Barney Conroy Suspense Novel,"" suggesting that others existed or were planned; however,"
"as The Ghostway. Still, if less richly nuanced with Navajo themes and scenes than previous tales, this minor Hillerman remains far-above-average crime fiction: vividly peopled, forcefully told. ""Publishers Weekly"" finds this novel wonderfully readable, but not up to Hillerman's best standards Hillerman's latest is not quite up to his best standards, but it's still a wonderfully readable, involving mystery. Here he sets Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee in Washington, D.C., as each uses vacation time to follow separate cases that will connect in a clash of violence at the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of Natural History."
"and bum their way across the country. It is written in a voice that is stereotypically black. It is out of print and currently available only as a single volume with either of Kerouac's novels ""Satori in Paris"" and ""The Subterraneans"". Pic (novel) Pic is a novella by Jack Kerouac, first published in 1971. ""Pic"" is the story of a small child, Pictorial Review Jackson, from North Carolina. When his grandfather, with whom he lives, dies, his older brother appears and plucks him from the dysfunctional home of his aunt. They journey north to New York City, where Pic bears"
"not write the book for monetary gain and that any funds not spent on the investigation would be given to charity. Aruba: The Tragic Untold Story of Natalee Holloway and Corruption in Paradise Aruba: The Tragic Untold Story of Natalee Holloway and Corruption in Paradise is an autobiographical true crime book by Dave Holloway about his experiences searching for his missing daughter Natalee Holloway, co-written with R. Stephanie Good and Larry Garrison. It was released on April 11, 2006 by the Thomas Nelson publishing company. The book covers Holloway's ongoing effort to locate his daughter Natalee, who disappeared during a"
"Underworld USA Trilogy The Underworld USA Trilogy is the collective name given to three novels by American crime author James Ellroy: ""American Tabloid"" (1995), ""The Cold Six Thousand"" (2001), and ""Blood's a Rover"" (2009). The trilogy blends fiction and history to tell a story of political and legal corruption in the United States between 1958 and 1973. ""American Tabloid"" covers the years 1958 to 1963, beginning exactly five years before the assassination of John F. Kennedy, with the assassination as the book's dénouement. ""The Cold Six Thousand"" begins concurrently with ""American Tabloid's"" end. It covers a slightly longer period, culminating"
"Harkaway (his father is John le Carré; perhaps it runs in the family) but he tends to lose sight of the plot and his duty to the reader. Nevertheless, ""The Gone-Away World"" is an impressive feat of imagination and a wildly exuberant ride."" ""The Gone-Away World"" was nominated in 2009 for a Locus Award for Best First Novel and a BSFA Award for Best Novel. The Gone-Away World The Gone-Away World is a science fiction novel set in a post-apocalyptic world crippled by the 'Go-Away War'. First published in June 2008 by Heinemann, it is the first novel written by"
"Kittredge, C.J. Box, Deirdre McNamer, Andrew Schneider and many others. He lives in Missoula, Montana. A complete list of McMahon's published novels: Neil McMahon Neil McMahon (born 1949) is the author of ten novels, as well as a collaboration with James Patterson—""Toys""—which was a ""New York Times"" #1 Bestseller. He has written two series: the Carroll Monks books (""Twice Dying"", ""Blood Double"", ""To The Bone"", ""Revolution No. 9""), and the Hugh Davoren books (""Lone Creek"", ""Dead Silver""). In the late 1980s he wrote three horror novels (all originally published under the pseudonym ""Daniel Rhodes"") that have been reissued as ebooks."
"Clarissa Oakes Clarissa Oakes (titled The Truelove in the USA) is the fifteenth historical novel in the Aubrey-Maturin series by British author Patrick O'Brian, first published in 1992. The story is set during the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. This novel constitutes the third of a five-novel circumnavigation of the globe; other novels in this voyage include ""The Thirteen Gun Salute"", ""The Nutmeg of Consolation"", ""The Wine-Dark Sea"", and ""The Commodore"". Glad that the penal colony is behind him, Captain Aubrey discovers a stowaway prisoner aboard near Norfolk Island. He deals with her before he allows the cutter"
"in other parts of Lowland Scotland, and Margaret McMurray (d. 1760) of Carrick (outside modern Galloway) appears to have been the last recorded speaker. In the years after the Union of the Crowns in 1603, Galloway underwent radical change, during the War of the Three Kingdoms and Covenanter rebellion. In modern times, Stranraer was a major ferry port, but the company have now moved to Cairnryan. Galloway has been the setting of a number of novels, including Walter Scott's ""Guy Mannering"". Other novels include the historical fiction trilogy by Liz Curtis Higgs, ""Thorn in My Heart"", ""Fair is the Rose"","
"Will, Josef Lindsay as Jim, Henry Goodman as Charles Halloway, Gerard McDermott as Mr. Cooger/The Lightning Rod Salesman and Kenneth Cranham as Mr. Dark. Something Wicked This Way Comes (novel) Something Wicked This Way Comes is a 1962 dark fantasy novel by Ray Bradbury. It is about 13-year-old best friends, Jim Nightshade and William Halloway, and their nightmarish experience with a traveling carnival that comes to their Midwestern town one October, and how the boys learn about combatting fear. The carnival's leader is the mysterious ""Mr. Dark,"" who seemingly wields the power to grant the citizenry's secret desires. In reality,"
"Aruba: The Tragic Untold Story of Natalee Holloway and Corruption in Paradise Aruba: The Tragic Untold Story of Natalee Holloway and Corruption in Paradise is an autobiographical true crime book by Dave Holloway about his experiences searching for his missing daughter Natalee Holloway, co-written with R. Stephanie Good and Larry Garrison. It was released on April 11, 2006 by the Thomas Nelson publishing company. The book covers Holloway's ongoing effort to locate his daughter Natalee, who disappeared during a high school graduation trip to Aruba in 2005. He details his experience following leads in crack houses and personally searching landfills."