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Title details for The Gold Coast by Nelson DeMille - Wait list

The Gold Coast

by Nelson DeMille
Scott Brick
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  • Release date

    July 22, 2008

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • File size: 715302 KB
      • Duration: 24:50:12

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      DeMille's story of Long Island's North Shore--nicknamed the Gold Coast--is a compelling portrait of how "ordinary" citizens can become involved in the dark side of American life. Scott Brick reads with a world-weary tone perfectly suited to the first-person narration of attorney John Sutter, who lives on his wife's family's estate. He is both repelled and fascinated to meet his new next-door neighbor, Mafia Don Frank Bellarosa. Through small events and foolish choices, John and his wife are drawn into Frank's world, with devastating results. Brick's narration is true to all the characters, from the well-bred Gold Coast residents to Bellarosa and his thugs. Brick's skill helps makes some of the plot, which might seem unrealistic on the page, more believable, as he expresses how John is drawn into Frank's web. Listeners will be compelled to keep listening. M.A.M. (c) AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      March 31, 1990
      What happens to a priggish, WASPy, disillusioned Wall Street lawyer when a Mafia crime boss moves into the mansion next door in his posh Long Island neighborhood? He ends up representing the gangster on a murder rap and even perjures himself so the mafiosostet lc can be released on $5 million bail. That's the premise of DeMille's ( The Charm School ) bloated, unpersuasive thriller. Attorney John Sutter has problems that would daunt even Fitzgerald's Jay Gatsby. His marriage is crumbling, despite kinky sex games with his self-centered wife, Susan, who's the mistress of his underworld client Frank Bellarosa. The IRS is after Sutter, and his law firm wants to dump him. As a sardonic morality tale of one man's self-willed disintegration, the impact is flattened by its elitist narrator's patrician tones. A comic courtroom scene and some punches at the end, however, redeem the novel somewhat. BOMC main selection; film rights to Guber/Peters-Columbia.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      The Long Island Gold Coast once held the greatest concentration of wealth and power in America. Mafia don Frank Bellarosa, a late-twentieth-century version of wealth and power, acquires the estate next to John Sutter, respected Wall Street tax lawyer. Like a moth to the flame, Sutter is drawn into Bellorosa's world. The story, first published in 1990, is told in Sutter's words, and Christian Rummel's narration is sterling. From the Gold Coast upper-crust accent known as "Locust Valley lockjaw" to the streetwise banter of the Mob, each character comes to life. Conversations between Sutter and Bellarosa are so realistic listeners may feel they're tied into a federal wiretap. With authentic settings and real people, THE GOLD COAST (now followed by a sequel, THE GATE HOUSE) provides an entertaining view of the sordid lives of the rich and famous. T.J.M. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award (c) AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine

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This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Funding for additional materials was made possible by a grant from the New Hampshire Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities.