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The Emperor of Ocean Park
by Carter, Stephen L
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0375431659
- ISBN 13
- 9780375431654
- Seller
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Slate Hill, New York, United States
Item Price
$28.00$14.00
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About This Item
Bit of shelfwear, else as new. Signed by author on title page. 0123 fic
Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- Cup and Chaucer Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4525
- Title
- The Emperor of Ocean Park
- Author
- Carter, Stephen L
- Format/Binding
- Sewn binding. Red boards, black spine, silver lettering.
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Large print. First printing thus.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0375431659
- ISBN 13
- 9780375431654
- Publisher
- Random House Large Print
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2002
- Pages
- 1133
- Size
- octavo
- Keywords
- African-American; Domestic fiction; Fathers and sons; Fiction; Legal; Literary; Mystery fiction; Political; Thrillers
- Bookseller catalogs
- Black Studies; Fiction, Mystery; Fiction, American; Autographed;
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