Nathaniel Pike, a headstrong billionaire, is purchasing a piece of federal land in New Hampshire’s White Mountains and turning it into a huge, inaccessible parking lot. Orbiting Pike and his aspirations is a cast of perfectly flawed eccentrics: Marlene, who is shy and vulnerable but also a budding exhibitionist; Stuart, Pike’s assistant, who is Marlene’s husband and a failed writer; and Heath, who films Marlene’s public nudity and turns her into an Internet star. In this grand tale of the folly of the modern world, Mike Heppner skewers the extravagance of wealth, and the class that grows up around that wealth, even as he casts a humane look at the people involved.
- ISBN10 0375412891
- ISBN13 9780375412899
- Publish Date 7 March 2006
- Publish Status Remaindered
- Out of Print 24 March 2010
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Alfred A. Knopf
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 319
- Language English