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Title: Gold Coast by Nelson Demille ISBN: 0-446-36085-6 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.31 (153 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The absolute best!
Comment: This is one of those books that stays with you long after you have read it, however I find myself rereading it every so often. I catch myself making references to it and recalling favorite lines and scenes.
Gold Coast has everything. It is suspenseful, poignant and surpisingly witty. The protagonist John Sutter has a great dry humor that is actually laugh out loud funny. It helps to live on Long Island and spot landmarks such as Hicks Nursery, CW Post College, and Oheka castle, but the themes are universal.
This is truly a modern Gatsby. DeMille borrows imagery from that previous Long Island classic. Most notably the hauntng image of a green light that represents all that could be. I have read all of loved most of DeMille's other work (Lion's Game and Plum Island are wonderful action novels), but Gold Coast is truly literature. The suspense growns and you wonder when Sutter truly got caught up in the world of the mafia.
The finely woven dicotomoy of two fading worlds is complex, as is Sutter's own growth in the spring and summer of his own diasastrous mid life crisis.
I recommend this book to every person I meet. When I spent a summer working in a public library I asked countless patrons, Have you read Gold Coast. I wish I could give it more than five stars as it surpasses every other book I have read!
Rating: 5
Summary: A Great American Story
Comment: Nelson Demille may be my favorite writer, and "The Gold Coast" is another great one. Patterned after F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby," Demille tries to create a piece of Americana. He easily succeeds.
John Sutter is a tax attorney living in a part of New York nicknamed "the gold coast." The area is pretty exclusive and features extremely wealthy people who's families have lived there for generations. Sutter's wife, Susan, has lived there all her life. Then a Mafia Don moves in next door. Frank Bellarosa immediately takes a liking to John and Susan. They become friends and are the gossip of the town. Frank is charged with a murder rap, and he summons John to represent him. This leads to various funny things happening.
This book is told through the eyes of John Sutter. The narration is witty and serious at the same time. Sutter is another one of Demille's funny characters. It is kind of about a mid-life type of crisis. Demille weaves this tale as smooth as ever. I'd highly recommend this book to anyone.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent story, well read, with many twists/turns.
Comment: This abridgment of the Nelson DeMille novel, provides an interesting story of three people, the Mafia boss, the lawyer, and his wife. Well read by the late, great, David Dukes, whose inflections and wry way of reading makes this a most interesting tale. I'd also recommend "The Charm School", "By The Rivers Of Babylon", "The Lion's Game", "Plum Island". [Too bad the movie of "The Lion's Game" isn't likely to see the light of day, in the wake of 9/11 and the current threats.]
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Title: Charm School by Nelson Demille ISBN: 0446353205 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 1989 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Plum Island by Nelson Demille ISBN: 0446605409 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Word of Honor by Nelson Demille ISBN: 0446301582 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1987 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: By the Rivers of Babylon by Nelson Demille ISBN: 0446358592 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1990 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Cathedral by Nelson Demille ISBN: 0446358576 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 1990 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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