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The Emperor of Ocean Park (Signed)
de Stephen L. Carter
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- Aceptable
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0375413634
- ISBN 13
- 9780375413636
- Librería
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LA QUINTA, California, United States
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Sobre este artículo
U.S.A.: Alfred a Knopf, 2002. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A fine copy in a fine and unclipped dustjacket. This copy is signed by the author on the title page--signature only with no additional inscriptions. A tight and clean copy in unread condition. The dustjacket is protected in a new mylar clear plastic covering. A very collectible copy. Free shipping within the USA.
Sinopsis
An extraordinary fiction debut: a large, stirring novel of suspense that is, at the same time, a work of brilliantly astute social observation. The Emperor of Ocean Park is set in two privileged worlds: the upper crust African American society of the eastern seaboard--old families who summer on Martha's Vineyard--and the inner circle of an Ivy League law school. It tells the story of a complex family with a single, seductive link to the shadowlands of crime.The Emperor of the title, Judge Oliver Garland, has just died, suddenly. A brilliant legal mind, conservative and famously controversial, Judge Garland made more enemies than friends. Many years before, he'd earned a judge's highest prize: a Supreme Court nomination. But in a scene of bitter humiliation, televised across the country, his nomination collapsed in scandal. The humbling defeat became a private agony, one from which he never recovered. But now the Judge's death raises even more questions--and it seems to be leading to a second, even more terrible scandal. Could Oliver Garland have been murdered? He has left a strange message for his son Talcott, a professor of law at a great university, entrusting him with "the arrangements"--a mysterious puzzle that only Tal can unlock, and only by unearthing the ambiguities of his father's past. When another man is found dead, and then another, Talcott--wry, straight-arrow, almost too self-aware to be a man of action--must risk his career, his marriage, and even his life, following the clues his father left him.Intricate, superbly written, often scathingly funny, The Emperor of Ocean Park is a triumphant work of fiction, packed with character and incident--a brilliantly crafted tapestry of ambition, family secrets, murder, integrity tested, and justice gone terribly wrong.From the Hardcover edition.
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- Librería
- Classic First Editions
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- cfe16593
- Título
- The Emperor of Ocean Park (Signed)
- Autor
- Stephen L. Carter
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0375413634
- ISBN 13
- 9780375413636
- Editorial
- Alfred a Knopf
- Lugar de publicación
- U.S.A.
- Fecha de publicación
- 2002
- Páginas
- 654
- Palabras clave
- FICTION
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LA QUINTA, California
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