Down the Shore
A Novel
by Stan Parish
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Pub Date May 29 2014 | Archive Date Jun 27 2014
PENGUIN GROUP Viking | Viking Adult
Description
An exhilarating debut novel of reinvention, friendship, and ambition—from the Jersey shore to Scotland
Tom Alison is weeks away from collecting his diploma at an East Coast boarding school and heading off to the Ivy League. His goal: a job in high finance alongside the power brokers he's been watching from a distance as the working-class son of a single mom. But when he gets caught selling drugs on campus, his life among the children of privilege quickly falls apart.
Tom escapes his ruined reputation with a new friend—Claire Savage, the son of a disgraced financier—and the two of them flee to the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. But what they find is a world shaped by even more powerful and unforgiving forces of greed, class, and ambition than the one they left behind. As Tom is sucked into a life of sex, drugs, status, and greed, he learns what it takes to break the rules—and how we can be broken by them.
Reminiscent of early Bret Easton Ellis and Jay McInerney, Down the Shore is an unflinching, unforgettable novel of youth and excess.
Tom Alison is weeks away from collecting his diploma at an East Coast boarding school and heading off to the Ivy League. His goal: a job in high finance alongside the power brokers he's been watching from a distance as the working-class son of a single mom. But when he gets caught selling drugs on campus, his life among the children of privilege quickly falls apart.
Tom escapes his ruined reputation with a new friend—Claire Savage, the son of a disgraced financier—and the two of them flee to the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. But what they find is a world shaped by even more powerful and unforgiving forces of greed, class, and ambition than the one they left behind. As Tom is sucked into a life of sex, drugs, status, and greed, he learns what it takes to break the rules—and how we can be broken by them.
Reminiscent of early Bret Easton Ellis and Jay McInerney, Down the Shore is an unflinching, unforgettable novel of youth and excess.
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Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9780670016426 |
| PRICE | $27.95 (USD) |
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