St. Martin's Press
February 2015
On Sale: February 10, 2015
Featuring: Dex Cooper; Titi
ISBN: 1250043964 EAN: 9781250043962 Kindle: B00LZH6JAC Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
From New York Times bestselling author, Tatjana Soli, comes The Last Good Paradise...
On a small, unnamed coral atoll in the South Pacific, a group of troubled dreamers must face the possibility that the hopes theyβve labored after so single-mindedly might not lead them to the happiness they feel they were promised. Ann and Richard, an aspiring, Los Angeles power couple, are already sensing the cracks in their version of the American dream when their life unexpectedly implodes, leading them to brashly run away from home to a Robinson Crusoe idyll.
Dex Cooper, lead singer of the rock band, Prospero, is facing his own slide from greatness, experimenting with artistic asceticism while accompanied by his sexy, young, and increasingly entrepreneurial muse, Wende. Loren, the French owner of the resort sauvage, has made his own Gauguin-like retreat from the world years before, only to find that the modern world has become impossible to disconnect from.
Titi, descendent of Tahitian royalty, worker, and eventual inheritor of the resort, must fashion a vision of the islandβs future that includes its indigenous people, while her partner, Cooked, is torn between anarchy and lust. By turns funny and tragic, The Last Good Paradise explores our modern, complex and often, self-contradictory discontents, crafting an exhilarating story about our need to connect in an increasingly networked but isolating world.
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