{"product_id":"tales-from-the-beach-house-paperback","title":"Tales from The Beach House - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJames Aylott\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2020 Midwest Book Awards Winner  2020 Royal Palm Literary Awards Gold Medal\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTales from The Beach House \u003c\/strong\u003eis a satiric work of fiction that sharply captures the \"Man-Bites-Dog\" world of contemporary South Florida. The Beach House, a crumbling old motel, is home to a collection of eccentric residents. Amongst their ranks; a tennis pro at the end of his game, a mortuary scientist whose love life has flat-lined, a paparazzo photographer searching for scoops, a bawdy duo fronting an improbable Ponzi enterprise, a beauty from \"The Islands\" with a dark secret, a fried-out TV weather man who claims to channel God, a middle school principal with a soft spot for Crack, a Rod Stewart cover artist searching for redemption, and a waitress serving a side order of erotic fiction. Each member of this cohort is in search of something - fast money, an easy hustle, fleeting romance, enduring love, fame, power, dignity, happiness... a place they can call home. As well as facing their own tender, tragic, and often hilarious personal circumstances, this eclectic gang is compelled by necessity to band together when a sinister developer threatens the very existence of The Beach House.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTales from The Beach House\u003c\/strong\u003e is carefully crafted in the spirit of Carl Hiaasen's career-long deconstruction of South Florida. Each chapter focuses on one of The Beach House's individual apartments. These standalone stories possess interwoven subplots reminiscent of Chaucer's \u003cem\u003eThe\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eCanterbury Tales, \u003c\/em\u003e Paul Theroux's \u003cem\u003eHotel Honolulu\u003c\/em\u003e and Thornton Wilder's classic novel \u003cem\u003eThe\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eBridge of San Luis Rey\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cstrong\u003eTales from The Beach House\u003c\/strong\u003e is written in a fast-paced tabloid style, reflecting both the author's transatlantic sensibilities and his two-decade career in the rough and tumble trenches of celebrity journalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJames Aylott\u003c\/strong\u003e was previously a Hollywood paparazzo photographer and staffer at an American supermarket tabloid. This is the author's first work of fiction, although he was often creative in his career of entertainment newsgathering and hated letting the truth interfere with a good story. A prior resident of Delray Beach, Florida, he now splits his time between Berkeley, California where his cat resides and St. Louis, Missouri where his family currently live.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 284\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.64 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 14, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51774677877024,"sku":"9780578479569","price":24.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/87043d2d78ec55dd4707e5bd25fe70d0.webp?v=1780453694","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/tales-from-the-beach-house-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}