Kirkus Reviews called Nick a "compelling character study." In his review for The New York Times, Ben Fountain called it an "exemplary novel" with a "classic American sound" and praised Smith's unique rendering of Nick Carraway. copyright expired on January 1, 2021, when all works published in 1925 entered the public domain in the United States. Smith was promptly informed that he would be required to wait until 2021 to publish it due to the original work's existing copyright. In 2015, ten months after Smith began writing the novel, he sent in a completed manuscript. He wrote it in secret, telling neither his agent nor his editor. Smith wrote the novel in 20, and did not once take into consideration any potential copyright issues. He felt emotionally compelled to write a prequel novel, despite the "literary weight" of doing so and the inevitable public reaction. He came to identify with its narrator Nick Carraway and was drawn to Carraway's sense of detachment. In 2014, after living in Europe, Smith reread the novel for the first time in several years. Smith first read The Great Gatsby as a high school student, but he did not fully understand it at the time.
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