The Suite Life
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4.0 • 3 Ratings
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- $15.99
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
From the author of A Brooklyn Story and one of USA TODAY’s celebrated “New Voices of 2011,” comes a new novel which exposes the over-the-top decadence—and corruption—of Wall Street’s elite.
Hailed as one of USA Today’s New Voices for her 2011 literary debut, Brooklyn Story, Suzanne Corso brings back the “true female voice” (The New York Times) of aspiring author Samantha Bonti in this breathtaking companion novel.
IT WAS THE DECADE OF BIG MONEY, BIG RISKS, BIG HAIR, AND BIG DREAMS . . . AND THERE WAS ONLY ONE BIG CITY WHERE IT COULD ALL HAPPEN
Growing up in Brooklyn, Samantha Bonti knew the writer’s life she was meant to live waited across the bridge in Manhattan. Summoning the courage to break free from an abusive mobster boyfriend, Sam finally leaves Bensonhurst and begins her new life, working as a temp in a Wall Street brokerage firm. Quickly, she’s swept off her feet by Wall Street player Alec DeMarco, a man of boundless energy, appetites, desires, and the wealth to indulge it all. In a whirlwind courtship, Alec showers Sam with exquisite gifts, the city’s finest cuisine, spontaneous weekend getaways, and, most of all, the love and security a girl from an unstable Brooklyn upbringing craves. But when the party’s over—when Alec’s high-flying career turns litigious and the big money is left on the table—will love be enough to sustain them? With her dream of publishing her novel still very much alive, Sam can’t back down now; she must choose the life that’s most true to who she really is inside.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Corso's flat, plodding second novel revisits Samantha Bonti, the heroine of her debut, Brooklyn Story. With Sam's gangster ex-boyfriend safely behind bars, she feels free to pursue her dream of becoming a writer. But when no publisher wants to risk the mob's ire, she reluctantly puts her novel on the back burner and focuses on making a life for herself in Manhattan, where by 1996 she's got a steady if unremarkable job as a "dreary corporate drone." Then she meets Alec DeMarco, a handsome Wall Street hotshot, marrying him after a whirlwind courtship. Within a few years, Alec has become immensely wealthy, but Sam is also finding that his sleazy, aggressive business dealings aren't so different from her gangster ex, and luxury is no compensation for the loss of her dreams a fact she only fully realizes once the 2008 market crash threatens to destroy Alec's fortune and her marriage. Corso's matter-of-fact narrative style delivers little emotional impact; as a result, it's hard to find Sam sympathetic, especially when she makes poor choices with overly telegraphed outcomes. Fans of Corso's first novel may enjoy this sequel, but it's less likely to draw in new fans.
