THE EMPEROR OF OCEAN PARK
de Stephen L. Carter
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- 0375413634
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Pomona, New York, United States
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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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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 102268
- Título
- THE EMPEROR OF OCEAN PARK
- Autor
- Stephen L. Carter
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Edición
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0375413634
- ISBN 13
- 9780375413636
- Editorial
- Knopf
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2002
- Palabras clave
- 0375413634
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