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New England White

A novel

By Stephen L. Carter

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| Hardcover | 9780375413629

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The eagerly awaited, electrifying new novel from the author of The Emperor of Ocean Park (“Among the most remarkable fiction debuts in recent years . . . A rip-roaring entertainment”—The Boston Globe).

When The Emperor of Ocean Park was Continue

The eagerly awaited, electrifying new novel from the author of The Emperor of Ocean Park (“Among the most remarkable fiction debuts in recent years . . . A rip-roaring entertainment”—The Boston Globe).

When The Emperor of Ocean Park was published, Time Out declared: “Carter does for members of the contemporary black upper class what Henry James did for Washington Square society, taking us into their drawing rooms and laying their motives bare.” Now, with the same powers of observation, and the same richness of plot and character, Stephen L. Carter returns to the New England university town of Elm Harbor, where a murder begins to crack the veneer that has hidden the racial complications of the town’s past, the secrets of a prominent family, and the most hidden bastions of African-American political influence.

At the center: Lemaster Carlyle, the university president, and his wife, Julia Carlyle, a deputy dean at the divinity school—African Americans living in “the heart of whiteness.” Lemaster is an old friend of the president of the United States. Julia was the murdered man’s lover years ago. The meeting point of these connections forms the core of a mystery that deepens even as Julia closes in on the politically earth-shattering motive behind the murder.

Relentlessly suspenseful, galvanizing in its exploration of the profound difference between allegiance to ideas and to people, New England White is a resounding confirmation of Stephen Carter’s gifts as a writer of fiction.

Critics

  • The Talented Tenth

    Herman Melville praised Hawthorne’s gothic New England tales, with their gloomy ministers and doom-ridden families, for what he called their “power of blackness,” but in “Moby-Dick” he showed that whiteness could be just as terrifying. In the great 4 ... (read full critics)

    nytimes published on Sat, 18 Sep 2010

  • New England White By Stephen L. Carter

    The term beach read has come to mean the kind of brain bubblegum that is heavy on plot but thin on style, characterization and other literary attributes, but it has always seemed to me that the less constrained days of summer are actually the best ti ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Mon, 13 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 576 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0375413626
  • ISBN-13: 9780375413629
  • Publisher: Knopf
  • Pub date: Jun 26, 2007
  • Dimensions: 1548 mm x 1097 mm x 323 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Paperback, Others and eBook
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