| The Ivory Coast Contributor(s): Fleming, Charles (Author) |
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ISBN: 0312422148 ISBN-13: 9780312422141 Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL OUR PRICE: $20.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2004 Annotation: With "The Ivory Coast, " aJformer writer for "Newsweek" and "Variety" pens an epic debut novel about Las Vegas in the '50s and the dreamers, crooks, and lovers caught in its glare. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - General - Fiction | Thrillers - Crime |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.87" H x 5.57" W x 8.52" (0.97 lbs) 352 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1950's - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Geographic Orientation - Nevada - Locality - Las Vegas, Nevada - Demographic Orientation - Urban |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: It is 1955 in Las Vegas, and the Chicago mob man Mo Weiner is bankrolling ex-boxer Worthless Worthington Lee and the city's first all-black hotel-casino. The Ivory Coast is rising up from the dust, on the wrong side of town. And out of the shadows steps Deacon, a white horn player with a dark past and a genius for jazz. Mo mistakes him for a hitman. Worthless takes him for a friend. Anita, the mixed-race beauty he falls for, wants him for herself. And Haney, the corrupt and racist cop who runs this hot desert oasis of sin and sand, wants him rubbed out. |
Contributor Bio(s): Fleming, Charles: - Charles Fleming is a veteran entertainment industry reporter and the author of After Havana (Minotaur, January 2004), as well as The New York Times bestselling The Goomba's Guide to Life and High Concept: Don Simpson and the Hollywood Culture of Excess. |