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This Vacant Paradise: A Novel
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| #2380149 in Books | Counterpoint | 2012-01-10 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.70 x1.00 x5.60l,.80 | File type: PDF | 320 pages | ||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Melancholia|By Susan|Victoria Patterson chose the perfect title for her book about Newport Beach, California, and I chose the title for this review because it was the first word that came to my mind. The Newport Beach I remember is a microcosm of what ails our society, and I moved across the country to get as far away as possible as soon as I could. Yes, I could have lived else|From Publishers Weekly|Considering the subject matter—the real housewives of Orange County—Patterson's debut novel (after story collection Drift) is surprisingly sophisticated and nuanced. In debt and unmarried, Esther Wilson works at a clothing bout
Story Prize and California Book Award finalist Victoria Patterson revisits Newport Beach in This Vacant Paradise, examining the intersections of economics, class, race, sex, and family expectations during the mid-1990’s. Esther lives with her grandmother, a virulent matriarch who controls her family with her wealth. Esther knows that an advantageous marriage replete with social standing, familial and peer approval, and financial rewards, will alleviate ...
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