People Die in Sunshine
A Novel of Miami
by Gloria Nagy
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Pub Date Oct 06 2020 | Archive Date Jan 27 2021
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Description
Sometime before dawn on a very hot early summer day in South Miami, two people were savagely killed.
People Die in Sunshine is a carnival ride through the externally glamorous, but internally twisted lives of two people, Frederick and Coco Rothstein and their world; one most of us only know about from reading true crime stories and news accounts of the lives of the super-rich and entitled dwellers in the bastion of wealth and privilege where families such as the Rothsteins reign. The first four words of Gloria Nagy's scorching, ironic tale of greed, glamour, envy, avarice, and the Janus-headed coin of love and hate are: "Money. Money. Money. Money." What Ms. Nagy accomplished in a work of humor, heartbreak, murder, and redemption reinforces those four words.
The Miami of the twenty-first century, a glittering city in the sun which has become a symbol of the new American Dream—retirement ease, new beginnings, or a haven for sketchy characters with dubious histories and too much money to spend. In a large cast of characters diverse in ethnicity, wealth, morality, and status, Ms. Nagy shines her own unique sunlight on a cross-section of this city of multi-cultural strivers and survivors, finding humanity in even the most flawed inhabitants of her singular human circus. This is a robust and tightly constructed romp through her slice of the sludge beneath the shimmering sand and as in all of her work, she sees and she sears.
Advance Praise
Praise for Gloria Nagy & Her Novels
“More than a summer page turner...Ms. Nagy has slapped her well-heeled characters beyond what they thought they could bear, by making the unexpected manifest.”
—The New York Times
“Tom Wolff, take note…
A staggeringly honest book about a special
piece of the American Dream.”
—Playboy Magazine
“Hilariously pierces the Seaside Social Set right
through their Patagonias.”
— Los Angeles magazine
“Gloria Nagy’s style is fresh, her pace brisk,
her humor delightful.”
—Los Angeles Times
“Virgin Kisses is like a nightmare Woody Allen would have on a
very bad night—the humor is quite literally hysterical.”
—Time Out
“Gloria Nagy’s gift is to move you as she elevates the ultimate joke into tragedy, marshaling absurdities for a final triumph.”
—New York Magazine
“A lacerating, literate, funny, and obscene expose.”
—Vogue
“Question: What is enticing, thrilling and can
cost you a day or a weekend?
Answer: Gloria Nagy’s new novel, The Beauty.”
—Norman Lear
“If every good novel is a mystery story, this particular mystery story has lots of other tasty novelistic virtues going for it—a sense of mischief, sharp social observation, doses of complicated wisdom. The Beauty will have legions of delighted readers.”
—Kurt Andersen, author of Turn of the Century
“Nagy imagines the present as a burning building which her characters must make their way out of. The Beauty is a terrific fable about the futility of escape, the inevitability of evil, and the power of redemption.”
—John Hockenberry, author of A River Out of Eden
“The Beauty starts fast and speeds up. Gloria Nagy is a skilled driver on a very scenic road, and keeps her passenger guessing what’s waiting around each new turn.
It’s well worth the trip.”
—Forrest Sawyer, NBC News
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781735243917 |
| PRICE | $14.95 (USD) |
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