Greenland Seth - The Hazards Of Good Fortune - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Fiction that feels as contemporaryas tomorrow's headlines. Jay Gladstone was born to privilege. He is a civic leader and a generous philanthropist as well as the owner of a basketball team. But in today's New York even a wealthy man's life can spin out of control no matter the money or influence he possesses. When a white cop shoots an unarmed black man in ambiguous circumstances the reverberations reach all the way up to the highest levels of society. Combining elements of comedy and tragedy the multi - layered narrative shifts perspectives from Jay Gladstone's gilded universe to the worlds of an opportunistic district attorney who refuses to let a failing marriage interfere with her plan to run for Governor an aging professional athlete in search of one last payday a group of college radicals determined to take bold action in the fight against racism a virtuous but unlucky cop who wants to be a lawyer and a feisty pair of talk radio personalities who serve as Greek chorus. Set during the last year of Barack Obama's presidency the novel does not shy away from the scalding social and racial divide. With a brilliant eye for character and a finely wrought plot that mixes biting humour with uncomfortable truth readers will find comparisons with Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities.
Title: The Hazards Of Good Fortune
Author(s): Greenland Seth
Publisher: Europa Editions
Barcode: 9781609454623
Pages: 624 Pages
Publication Date: 8/21/2018
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction