This Vacant Paradise A Novel
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC; Counterpoint
Published: 2011
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9781582436456
Description: "The 1990s--Newport Beach, California. Money is God. A man's worth is judged by the size of his boat, the make of his car. A woman's value is assessed by the blank perfection of her quantifiable desirability: dress size, cup size, the whiteness of her teeth. And oh yes: her youth. Though Esther Wilson, the heroine of Victoria Patterson's debut novel, has the looks to marry well, things aren't going as planned. She's nearing her mid-30s and possibly aging out of the only role she's equipped to play: wife to a powerful member of the elite." --Dust jacket.