Author

Publication

2008 - Other Press, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

53,000 words, Guess

Page Count

212 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more

Classifications

  • DDC813/.6
  • LCCPS3612.E965 A65 2008
  • LCCPS3612.E965 A65 2007

Description

The wedding of billionaire Adam Bloch and Maisie Maclaren is the event of the year in Clement's Cove, Maine, a coastal village where the increasingly expansive "cottages" of the summering elite sit side-by-side with the modest homes of working-class locals. Adam, a shy, tentative man with a terrible tragedy in his past, has, at fifty-four, reached the moment in his life when he feels he is finally ready to live-and yet he doesn't quite know what to do with himself. When Maisie asks for a lap pool so she can strengthen her body, debilitated by years of Hodgkin's disease, Adam approaches his neighbor with a generous offer to buy the plot of land on which her trailer sits to make room for the pool. She refuses, and a chain of events is set in motion that pits Adam against his neighbors, the new rich against those scraping by, outsider against old-timer, in an escalating struggle that can only end in catastrophe.

Subjects

Genres

  • Fiction

Other Editions

  • Adam the king: a novelOther Press2008-01-01

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