Joe McGinniss was an American journalist and best-selling author. Joe McGinniss was born in New York on December 9, 1942. He graduated from the College of the Holy Cross in 1964 and became a general assignment reporter at the Worcester Telegram in Worcester, Massachusetts. Within a year he left to become a sportswriter for the Philadelphia Bulletin. He then moved to the Philadelphia Inquirer as a general interest columnist. At his death McGinniss was at work on a memoir chronicling his adv...
Carousel Court
Carousel Court
Synopsis
Nick and Phoebe Maguire are young, ambitious and out of options. After a devastating trauma they leave the East Coast with their infant son for Southern California, chasing the beachside house, the organic aisle, the private preschool.
They arrive at the worst possible moment. Instead of the life they pictured they land in the dark heart of foreclosure alley, among neighbours drowning in underwater mortgages — people who set fire to their possessions, flee in the night, and keep a twelve-gauge beside the bed.
Joe McGinniss Jr. writes the marriage that follows as blood sport: two people making separate, escalating, increasingly unforgivable bargains to get out. Carousel Court is a novel of the American crash, compared on publication to Revolutionary Road for the era of The Unwinding.
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Characters
Nick MaguireProtagonist
A former documentary filmmaker scrambling for work as the economy collapses.
Phoebe MaguireProtagonist
A pharmaceutical sales rep whose bargains grow more dangerous as the debts mount.
Earl JacksonSupporting
Nick and Phoebe's infant son.
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Carousel CourtUnknown, 2016
368 pages
Simon & SchusterLanguage: EnglishISBN: 97814767913022 editions available
