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发表于2024-11-28
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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.
这学期证据法教授写的悬疑小说。结尾有些令人失望,前面铺开的内容太多,悬念太多,所以最后并没有真相大白的畅快淋漓感。本书真正的有趣点在于从一个黑人法学院教授的视角写法学院教授间的勾心斗角,以及美国黑人中上阶级的生活面貌和价值取向。在这两点上,卡特教授无疑是一流的。
评分这本书原价居然这么贵??20块在泰国买到手。开头感觉很漫长,但越看越有意思了。所有的谜团在未发现之前都是迷雾,发现以后其实都有很简单的逻辑。
评分这本书原价居然这么贵??20块在泰国买到手。开头感觉很漫长,但越看越有意思了。所有的谜团在未发现之前都是迷雾,发现以后其实都有很简单的逻辑。
评分这本书原价居然这么贵??20块在泰国买到手。开头感觉很漫长,但越看越有意思了。所有的谜团在未发现之前都是迷雾,发现以后其实都有很简单的逻辑。
评分这本书原价居然这么贵??20块在泰国买到手。开头感觉很漫长,但越看越有意思了。所有的谜团在未发现之前都是迷雾,发现以后其实都有很简单的逻辑。
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The Emperor of Ocean Park pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024