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A gorgeous excitement : a novel / Cynthia Weiner.
"The summer of 1986 in New York City starts off with a model's face getting slashed after rejecting her landlord's advances. It ends with a young woman's half naked body discovered in Central Park, murdered after a night of "rough sex." Nina Jacobs is 18, working a series of boring temp jobs, trying to lose her virginity before she leaves for college at the end of the summer, while also trying to stay out of the way of her mother, who spends her days in bed or criticizing Nina, or often both. And developing a burgeoning cocaine habit. Could the magnetic IT boy from the bar they hang out at that caters to the Upper East Side private school rich kid set, be the one who can help her achieve both her goals this summer?"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593798843 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 354 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Crown, [2025]
- Copyright: ©2025
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| Subject: | Drug addiction > Fiction. Man-woman relationships > Fiction. Mothers and daughters > Fiction. Murder > Fiction. Nineteen eighties > Fiction. Young women > Fiction. New York (N.Y.) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Bildungsromans. Psychological fiction. Novels. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lakeshore Branch | FIC Weine | 31681010402725 | FICTION | In transit | - |
- Baker & Taylor
Nina Jacobs navigates her motherâs volatile depression and her own struggles for acceptance and independence in gritty 1980s Manhattan after an embarrassing sexual exploit leads her down a dangerous path of drugs and self-destruction. - Random House, Inc.
One young womanâs summer of infinite possibility takes a turn she never saw coming in âthis 1980s coming-of-age tale [thatâs] chillingly compelling. Get ready to be transported.ââPeople (Best Books of the Month)
AN OPRAH DAILY BEST NEW THRILLER ⢠A TOWN & COUNTRY AND CRIMEREADS MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK
âI havenât felt this kind of excitement reading a story set in the â80s since I first discovered Jay McInerney, Tama Janowitz, and Bret Easton Ellis.ââMargarita Montimore, bestselling author of Oona Out of Order
There are two things Nina Jacobs is determined to do over the summer of 1986: avoid her motherâs depression-fueled rages, and lose her virginity before she starts college in the fall. Both are seemingly impossibleâwhen her mother isnât lying in bed for days, sheâs lashing out at Nina over any perceived slight. And after a blowjob gone spectacularly wrong, Nina is the talk of Flanaganâs, the Upper East Side bar where young Manhattan society congregates. It doesnât help that sheâs Jewish, an outsider among the blue-eyed blondes who populate this rarified world. She can fit in, kind of, with enough alcohol and prescription drugs stolen from her parentsâ medicine cabinet.
Flanaganâs is where she pines for the handsome, preppy, and charismatic Gardner Reed. Every girl wants to sleep with him and every guy wants to be him. After sheâs introduced to cocaine, Nina plunges headlong into her pursuit of Gardner, oblivious to the warning signs. When a new medication seemingly frees her mother from darkness, and Nina and Gardner grow closer, it seems like Nina might finally get what she wants. But at what cost?
Freud called cocaine âa gorgeous excitement,â but a gorgeous excitement for the wrong guy can be lethal.
