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Grove Press, Black Cat
February 2008
On Sale: January 21, 2008
288 pages
ISBN: 0802170439
EAN: 9780802170439
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Gabriel Tucker is a globe-trotting, trust fund–endowed
twenty-nine-year-old who suddenly finds himself penniless
and alone in the world, except for an old Miami Beach
apartment building named the Venus De Milo Arms, the last
thing of value left to him by his now-vanished family.
Lacking skills or resources, he heads to Miami Beach to
reconstruct his life, finding himself neighbors with an
unlikely mix of tenants: an elderly Holocaust survivor, a
lip-synching drag queen, a cynical two-bit gossip
columnist, and a rebellious young performance artist who
will eventually capture his heart. Within days, Gabriel is
thrust into the outrageous world of South Beach, Miami of
the nineties: temptations, quick fortunes, mountains of
drugs, notorious murders, nonstop sex, and beautiful women
(and men) for sale (or rent) are the order of the day. He
is a ringside witness to the excesses and intrigues of
Italian fashion empires, Cuban refugee supermodels,
rapacious German developers, old-fashioned crooked
politicians, and a cast of characters that would make
Caligula blush. It is in South Beach that Gabriel will
eventually discover the long-buried mysteries of his family
and find a soul he never imagined he had and a love he
never dreamed he deserved.
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