A Gorgeous Excitement: A Novel

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One young woman&’s summer of infinite possibility takes a turn she never saw coming in &“this 1980s coming-of-age tale [that&’s] chillingly compelling. Get ready to be transported.&”—People (Best Books of the Month) A TOWN & COUNTRY AND CRIMEREADS MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK&“I haven&’t felt this kind of excitement reading a story set in the &’80s since I first discovered Jay McInerney, Tama Janowitz, and Bret Easton Ellis.&”—Margarita Montimore, bestselling author of Oona Out of OrderThere 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. Every girl wants to sleep with him and every guy wants to be him. 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.
Copyright:
2025

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
368 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780593798850
Related ISBNs:
9780593798843, 9798217067268, 9798217067275, 9798217070442
Publisher:
Crown
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Copyrighted By:
Cynthia Weiner
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Literature and Fiction
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Bookshare Staff
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