A Gorgeous Excitement by Weiner, Cynthia

A Gorgeous Excitement

A dazzling debut novel set in 1980s New York, when cocaine is as easy to get as...
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Author: Cynthia Weiner
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Language: English
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A Gorgeous Excitement by Weiner, Cynthia

A Gorgeous Excitement

Dhs. 162.82

A Gorgeous Excitement

Dhs. 162.82
Author: Cynthia Weiner
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
A dazzling debut novel set in 1980s New York, when cocaine is as easy to get as ice cream, about one young woman's summer of infinite possibility--and looming danger.

It was the summer of 1986, when the girl was found dead in Central Park behind the Metropolitan Museum--half-naked, legs splayed, arms flung over her head. Larynx crushed.

There are two things Nina Jacobs is determined to do over the summer of 1986: avoid her mother's depression-fueled rages, and lose her virginity before she starts college in the fall. Both are seemingly impossible--when her mother isn't lying in bed for days, she's lashing out at Nina over any perceived slight. And after a blowjob gone spectacularly wrong, Nina is the talk of Flanagan's, the Upper East Side bar where young Manhattan society congregates. It doesn't help that she's 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 parents' medicine cabinet.

Flanagan's is where she pines for the handsome, preppy, and charismatic Gardner Reed, whom every girl wants to sleep with and every guy wants to be. After she's 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?

Sigmund Freud called a cocaine high "a gorgeous excitement" and, as Nina Jacobs is about to learn, New York City is a deadly place to be gorgeous.

Author: Cynthia Weiner
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Published: 01/21/2025
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.42lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.13w x 0.97d
ISBN: 9780593798843

About the Author
Cynthia Weiner has a long career writing and teaching fiction. Her short stories have been published in Ploughshares, The Sun, and Epiphany, and one of her stories, "Boyfriends," was awarded a Pushcart Prize. She is also the assistant director of The Writers Studio in New York City. A Gorgeous Excitement, her first novel, was inspired by her upbringing on New York's Upper East Side in the 1980s, and particularly by the notorious "Preppy Murder" of 1986. Weiner now lives in New York's Hudson Valley.

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