The Last Good Chance, Tom Barbash
The Last Good Chance, Tom Barbash
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The Last Good Chance
A Novel

Author: Tom Barbash

Narrator: Charlie Thurston

Unabridged: 11 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ecco

Published: 12/04/2018

Synopsis

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

About Tom Barbash

Tom Barbash is the author of the award-winning novel, The Last Good Chance, which was was awarded the California Book Award, and the short story collection Stay Up With Me, which was a national bestseller and was nominated for the Folio Prize. His nonfiction book, On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald, Howard Lutnick, and 9/11: A Story of Loss and Renewal, was a New York Times bestseller. His stories and articles have been published in Tin House, McSweeney’s, VQR, and other publications, and have been performed on National Public Radio for their Selected Shorts Series. He currently teaches in the MFA program at California College of the Arts. He grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and currently lives in Marin County.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tommie on December 03, 2019

I just wasn't invested in the characters. They were believable enough, but I didn't know them well enough to care about their successes and failures. The book was very well plotted, but lacked dramatic action, even though many of the scenes would have lent themselves to more graphic conflict and dra......more

Goodreads review by Zachary on April 07, 2019

I come from a small town in central Ontario, but chances are — unless I was pushed somehow — I would never return. There’s nothing really for me to return to, at least, job-wise. However, perhaps if there were something that begged a return, Tom Barbash’s debut novel The Last Good Chance might point......more

Goodreads review by Mike on February 12, 2019

For all its small town intrigue, infidelity, and illegal industrial waste, not much happens in this slow moving story. It's well written, and engaging enough, but just not exciting. I LOVED "Nobody's Fool" so it's not like I need action, which leaves me to believe it was the characters. They were we......more

Goodreads review by Holly on March 16, 2019

A nice linear story about a man who wants to make a difference for his hometown via property development but who gets mired in scandal when the cleanup efforts are not ethical. It was a pleasant read but was not earth shattering nor, ultimately, memorable. Jack's wife and an old classmate are the ot......more

Goodreads review by Randi on December 31, 2018

I love the way Tom Barbadh writes. It seems effortless and allows the reader to be right in the story. I want more and more and more...........more

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