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The Beach Club: A Novel By Elin Hilderbrand ( St. Martin's Paperbacks )
Release Date: 2001-06-18
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Product Description
Gorgeous Nantucket is an island where memories are made, friendships begun, passions ignited. Now, during one unforgettable summer, the exclusive Nantucket Beach Club and Hotel will shape the fates of the men and women who walk through its doors...Mack Peterson escaped the past and started over in a hotel that has become his life. This summer his secrets can't stay hidden... Love O'Donnell, a glamorous Aspen native, takes a job at the Beach Club to implement her daring plan...to find a man to make her pregnant... Vance Robbins has his African-American pride and festering resentments. This season, a gun and a woman offer him a chance to get even with the man he hates most... Cecily Elliott, the owner's daughter, wild and beautiful at eighteen, is about to do something to break her parents' hearts. Lacey Gardner, the Grande Dame of the Beach Club for 45 years, knows about desperate desire...and about the storm coming that will change everything...AUTHORBIO: ELIN HILDERBRAND is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop where she was a teaching-writing fellow.Her short fiction has appeared in Seventeen, The Massachusetts Review, and The Colorado Review.She lives year-round on Nantucket Island with her husband, Chip Cunningham, who manages the Cliffside Beach Club and their son. This is her first novel.
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A book that will keep you reading. ( azharsky )
I loved reading this book. It explores the lives and secrets of several people at the beach club. The real drama starts when these peoples lives become intertwined; it shakes up the entire beach club and staff as well. A few characters find themselves at crossroads and have to make decisions that will change the course of their lives. But the author does a good job in making the novel a fun, exciting read rather than a tear jerker.
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A Great Summer Read!
This book was my first read by Ms. Hilderbrand, and I am hooked! I love her writing style, her story kept me captivated the entire story, I even stayed up until 1am finishing The Beach Club, wanting to find out what happens between Mack and Maribel, Jem, Love and Vance. I loved all the characters equally, and was happy to see Maribel find happiness in the end, as well as Mack find his place. The book was a great read! I'm already started on Hilderbrand's Nantucket Nights!
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The first one I read of hers ( dmharold )
This is yet another good book by this author. I really love her books!
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Book is a Bust! ( nunyabizzness )
I really enjoyed "Barefoot" and "Summer People". This book, I did NOT like. The characters were uninteresting and annoying. The were characters that had nothing to do with the story, yet it dragged on and on (Lacey). The story drifted off too many times. There was no purpose. I had to struggle to finish this one.
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Summer Lite
Pure beach read. Nice sense of summer life at a Nantucket resort. Not nearly as well crafted as her newest book (The Love Season) but worthy as the perfect tonic for a relaxing summer day.
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