By Jessica Schneider Jul 17, 2008, 10:36 GMT
This is the third novel from Stephen L. Carter, a professor from Yale Law.
According to the NYT: “This book is couched as a paranoid thriller with serious historical ramifications. That’s not an impossible combination (think of “The Manchurian Candidate”), but it’s an awkward one for Mr. Carter. The reader is asked to believe that Eddie stumbles on a secret so big, tantalizing and terrible that powerful people with droppable names will spend decades trying to pry it out of him.”
Published by Knopf, an excerpt is available on Amazon.
The NYT reviewer goes on to state: “In all three books he explores a rarefied black world that he treats as a parallel universe to better-known white society, with a black elite that has its own ideas about success and distinction. When Eddie isn’t wowing America at large, he is navigating artfully among old Harlem doyennes and power brokers who will leave their stamp on the next generation. It is in this realm, with the burden of history temporarily lifted, that “Palace Council” feels most like a novel — and most at home.”
Click here for the NYT review.
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