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South Beach: The Novel
South Beach: The Novel
South Beach: The Novel
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South Beach: The Novel

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“Decadence has never seemed so sweet and innocent as it does in Brian Antoni’s lost world of deco and disco in pre-millennial Miami.” —Jay McInerney
 
This second novel by the acclaimed author of Paradise Overdose, is a “candy-colored and warmhearted . . . story of one man’s moral and sexual flowering” (The New York Times Book Review).
 
At the ripe old age of twenty-nine, globe-trotting, trust fund-endowed Gabriel Tucker is horrified to learn that all that’s left of his inheritance is a crumbling Miami Beach apartment building named the Venus De Milo Arms. Alone, penniless, and lacking any sort of useful skills, he heads to Miami to reconstruct his life.
 
His new neighbors are an unlikely mix of tenants: an elderly Holocaust survivor, a lip-synching drag queen, a cynical two-bit gossip columnist, and a rebellious young performance artist who Gabriel starts to fall for.
 
Quickly he is thrust into the outrageous world of South Beach, where temptations abound and quick fortunes, mountains of drugs, nonstop sex, and beautiful women (and men) for sale (or rent) are the order of the day. He becomes a ringside witness to the excesses and intrigues of Italian fashion empires, Cuban refugee supermodels, rapacious German developers, old-fashioned crooked politicians, and a cast of colorful characters that would make Caligula blush.
 
South Beach’s debauched and seductive glow makes for an unlikely place to start over. But it is here, among the faded art deco buildings and eclectic residents, that Gabriel will find a home—and a love—that he never expected.
 
“[Antoni] mischievously and triumphantly combines explicit sexual encounters with keen, hilarious social commentary and genuine compassion to create a love letter to a crazy place and a sweet tale of friendship, succor, and love.” —Booklist
LanguageEnglish
Release dateMar 1, 2008
ISBN9781555848422
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    South Beach before it became South Beach. This is South Beach just as it is starting to be up and coming. Uses some of the real life characters that were there before it became the hot spot it is now, Madoona, Cher, Donatella Versace. It has a young man inheriting a deco hotel from his grandfather. The young man has always been a trust fun baby and lived life to the fullest around the world. He however loses this all due to bad investments. He moves to South Beach and moves into the Venus De Milo Arms the hotel he's inherited. He gets there and meets an interesting cast of characters. A former NY artists, a pre-op transsexual woman who doesn't speak, a WWI Holocaust survivor and a Cuban refugee who he saves at the beach. Very good book overall makes me want to go to South Beach just to look at the Art Deco architecture.

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