Ebook {Epub PDF} The Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen L. Carter

Stephen Carter, is a unique talent: a prize-winning writer of both fiction and non-fiction, he is also a law professor at Yale University. The Emperor of Ocean Park derives its title from the sobriquet given by a magazine to Judge Oliver Garland, a key but short-lived character. This is an astounding novel that feels like non-fiction in many ways, a book filled with ideas and lots of moving parts/5. Details for: The Emperor of Ocean Park / Normal view MARC view ISBD view. The Emperor of Ocean Park / Stephen L. Carter. By: Carter, Stephen L, Material type: Text Publication details: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, c Edition. The Emperor of Ocean Park (), an African American thriller by Stephen L. Carter, follows a single family connected to an underworld crime syndicate and the death that sparks a series of controversial discoveries. Critics praise its complex characterization, atmosphere, and pacing.

The Emperor of Ocean Park Stephen L. Carter Limited preview - Stephen L. Carter is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale University, where he has taught since He is the author of seven non-fiction books. He and his family live near New Haven, Connecticut. Bibliographic information. Four Augusts later, Abby's boyish laughter was no longer heard along Ocean Park, or anywhere else, her joy in life, and ours in her, having vanished in a confused instant of rain-slicked asphalt and an inexperienced teenager's fruitless effort to evade an out-of-control sports car, something fancy, seen by several witnesses but never accurately. Stephen L. Carter is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale University, where he has taught since He is the author of the best-selling novelThe Emperor of Ocean Park, and seven acclaimed nonfiction books, includingThe Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion and Civility: Manner, Morals, and the Etiquette of Democracy.

Caught in the middle, in a marriage that is unraveling, a university from which he feels increasingly alienated, and a family history from which it seems he cannot escape, Talcott begins the long and winding–and quite dangerous–task of unraveling his father's sins and secrets. But The Emperor of Ocean Park is more than a thriller, thrilling as it undoubtedly is. The Emperor of Ocean Park is a novel by American author and law professor Stephen L. Carter. It is the first part of Carter's Elm Harbor series; two more novels in the series were published in and The book was Carter's first work of fiction, and spent 11 weeks on The New York Times best-seller list following its publication. In his triumphant fictional debut, Stephen Carter combines a large-scale, riveting novel of suspense with the saga of a unique family. The Emperor of Ocean Park is set in two privileged worlds: the upper crust African American society of the Eastern seabord—families who summer at Martha’s Vineyard—and the inner circle of an Ivy League law school.