Marjorie Klein

BOOM! A Miami Beach Story (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Zoe drives a cab in Miami Beach: Zippity Cab is her sixty-year-old pink Cadillac Sedan Deville that she's kept in tiptop shape until the day that it's battered by Tootsie, the mother of a Miami Beach commissioner, Hal, who is having career problems of his own. The vehicular conflict leads to a resolution of sorts when Hal hires Zoe as a driver for his father, Max, a once-powerful developer whose driver's license has been revoked. Max discovers that his most famous hotel, the legendary Louis Quinze, will be demolished and replaced by a glitzy new condo, and that his son Hal had a role in this.

Max's decision to salvage his legacy exposes the mid-life delusions of Zoe and Hal. Unhappily on the cusp of fifty, Zoe ditches her once-beloved but now-mangled Caddy for a flashy new BMW. Fifty-something Hal, desperate to regain his place in a political and social climate that has left him behind, sells his soul to a developer and chases youth in the form of Staci, a comely Cuban who fears it's too late to achieve her own dream of Maxim fame. Each is at a turning point in life, trying to deal with change through the often-mindless pursuit of irrational desires, driven to recoup some part of their lives that may be gone forever-and may never have existed at all.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: C'est Moi Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781393431671
• Artikelnr.: 60863138

Autorenporträt

Marjorie Klein's first novel, Test Pattern (Wm. Morrow Publishers, 2000; HarperCollins/ Perennial 2001, now an e-book) was a Barnes and Noble "Discover Great New Writers" selection. Her narrative nonfiction has appeared in various publications, including 20 years of free-lance work for Tropic, the Miami Herald's former Sunday magazine. Recipient of a Florida Individual Artist Fellowship, she served as a preliminary judge for the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts for 13 years and is a member of the Flatiron Writers group in Asheville. After receiving her MFA from Florida International University, she taught at the University of Miami, Florida International University, Miami-Dade College, Warren Wilson College, University of North Carolina/Asheville's Great Smokies Writers Program, and UNCA's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.

Author photo by Maggie Evans Silverstein

Cover design by Ken Klein