The Soli, Tatjana creator author. text nyu 2015 First Edition. monographic eng

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306 pages ; 25 cm "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 they've 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 island's 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. "-- Tatjana Soli. po----- Life change events Fiction FICTION / Literary Oceania Fiction PS 3619.O43255 .O43255L37 2015 813/.6 FIC019000 9781250043962 (hardcover) 2014033630 http://www.netread.com/jcusers2/bk1388/962/9781250043962/image/lgcover.9781250043962.jpg http://www.netread.com/jcusers2/bk1388/962/9781250043962/image/lgcover.9781250043962.jpg DLC 141010 20220421102425.0 18331708 eng