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The Last Good Chance: A Novel

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Engelsk
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Romaner

A young man’s plan to revitalize his hometown leads four of its inhabitants down alternating paths of desire and deceit in this captivating first novel.

“Heady, lyrical—and darkly funny in small offhand moments. It’s a pleasure to read.” —Meg Wolitzer

When the charismatic Jack Lambeau returns to his hometown along Lake Ontario with an eye toward revitalizing its fading post-industrial waterfront into a tasteful commercial development for tourists and yuppies, the town of Lakeland quickly gets on board. At first glance, Jack seems to have it all: a successful urban planner, he’s also brought home his fiancée, Anne, a talented artist with whom he’s fiercely in love. But it doesn’t take long for cracks to appear in Jack’s idyllic life

Enter Steven Turner—exiled New Yorker, local reporter looking for a scoop, and Jack’s best friend in Lakeland. Between the two of them come Anne, who Steven grows close to, and Jack’s floundering brother Harris, who spends his nights breaking the law to bury the mistakes of the past that might derail Jack’s plans. As Steven’s personal and professional incursion into Jack’s life intensifies, all four characters find themselves starting to unravel.

Moving, poignant, and rife with humor, The Last Good Chance is a powerful debut novel about the moral compromises we make in the name of loyalty, ambition, and love.

“Buzzing with emotional conflict and humming with worthwhile ideas about our times. . . . Approaches the scope of a work by Richard Russo, John Irving, Walker Percy, or T.C. Boyle.” —Plain Dealer (Cleveland)

“An ambitious, deftly plotted, multifariously satisfying piece of genuine American realism.” —Jonathan Franzen

“Here is a wonderful book, humorous, poignant, filled with people we either know or have been.” —Elizabeth Strout

“Barbash shows himself to be a knowing guide to smalltown politics in a first novel with extraordinary empathic reach. . . . A taut, intricate vision of ambition, corruption and love in the postindustrial era.” —Publishers Weekly

© 2024 Ecco (E-bog): 9780062355324

Release date

E-bog: 16. april 2024

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