Adam the king
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Jeffrey Lewis.
Publisher: Other Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9781590512845
Subjects: Jewish men -- Fiction.; Weddings -- Fiction.; Middle age -- Fiction.; Rich people -- Fiction.; Life change events -- Fiction.; Summer resorts -- Fiction.; Maine -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: The wedding of billionaire Adam Bloch and Maisie Maclaren is the event of the year in Clement's Cove, Maine, a coastal village where the increasingly expansive "cottages" of the summering elite sit side-by-side with the modest homes of working-class locals. Adam, a shy, tentative man with a terrible tragedy in his past, has, at fifty-four, reached the moment in his life when he feels he is finally ready to live-and yet he doesn't quite know what to do with himself. When Maisie asks for a lap pool so she can strengthen her body, debilitated by years of Hodgkin's disease, Adam approaches his neighbor with a generous offer to buy the plot of land on which her trailer sits to make room for the pool. She refuses, and a chain of events is set in motion that pits Adam against his neighbors, the new rich against those scraping by, outsider against old-timer, in an escalating struggle that can only end in catastrophe.