The Emperor of Ocean Park
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9780736687409 (0736687408)
Publish date: April 1st 2002
Publisher: Books on Tape
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
African American,
Mystery,
Contemporary,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Suspense
Race relations from the black perspective, lawyers and law school, professors, family, secrets, mystery, murder, and chess.
The Emperor of Ocean Park is a legal thriller involving a law professor, Talcott Garland, whose father was a prominent judge who was disgraced after being nominated for a Supreme Court chair by Ronald Reagan. The judge's nomination ended in disgrace because of his association with Jack Ziegler, a fo...
The Emperor of Ocean Park, which dedicates quite a number of pages to the game of chess its narrator loves, is itself a sort of chess match. Author Carter runs multiple sophisticated plots concurrently through the story, making Emperor a novel of academia, of racial and professional politics (here ...
This was a good story but could have been a lot shorter...too descriptive throughout. I found myself thinking, "Move on! I got it.". But, the story is worth the read.
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