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A Gorgeous Excitement

Hardback Book  |  Modern & Contemporary  |  25 Feb 2025
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A dazzling debut novel set in 1980s New York, when cocaine is as easy to get as ice cream, about one young woman's summer of infinite possibility-and looming danger.

A dazzling debut novel set in 1980s New York, when cocaine is as easy to get as ice cream, about one young woman's summer of infinite possibility-and looming danger.

It was the summer of 1986, when the girl was found dead in Central Park behind the Metropolitan Museum-half-naked, legs splayed, arms flung over her head. Larynx crushed.

There are two things Nina Jacobs is determined to do over the summer of 1986- avoid her mother's depression-fueled rages, and lose her virginity before she starts college in the fall. Both are seemingly impossible-when her mother isn't lying in bed for days, she's lashing out at Nina over any perceived slight. And after a blowjob gone spectacularly wrong, Nina is the talk of Flanagan's, the Upper East Side bar where young Manhattan society congregates. It doesn't help that she's Jewish, an outsider among the blue-eyed blondes who populate this rarified world. She can fit in, kind of, with enough alcohol and prescription drugs stolen from her parents' medicine cabinet.

Flanagan's is where she pines for the handsome, preppy, and charismatic Gardner Reed, whom every girl wants to sleep with and every guy wants to be. After she's introduced to cocaine, Nina plunges headlong into her pursuit of Gardner, oblivious to the warning signs. When a new medication seemingly frees her mother from darkness, and Nina and Gardner grow closer, it seems like Nina might finally get what she wants. But at what cost?

Freud called cocaine "a gorgeous excitement," but a gorgeous excitement for the wrong guy can be lethal.

Title: A Gorgeous Excitement

Format: Hardback Book

Release Date: 25 Feb 2025

Type: Cynthia Weiner

Sku: 3177317

Catalogue No: 9780593798843

Category: Modern & Contemporary


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