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The wedding of billionaire Adam Bloch and Maisie Maclaren is the event of theyear in Clements Cove Maine a coastal village where the increasinglyexpansive cottages of the summering elite sit sidebyside with the modesthomes of workingclass locals. Adam a shy tentative man with a terribletragedy in his past has at fiftyfour reached the moment in his life when hefeels he is finally ready to liveand yet he doesnt quite know what to do withhimself. When Maisie asks for a lap pool so she can strengthen her bodydebilitated by years of Hodgkins disease Adam approaches his neighbor with agenerous offer to buy the plot of land on which her trailer sits to make roomfor the pool. She refuses and a chain of events is set in motion that pitsAdam against his neighbors the new rich against those scraping by outsideragainst oldtimer in an escalating struggle that can only end in catastrophe.Taut startling and dramatic Adam the King depicts the inexorability offate against the backdrop of the moneymad 90s the emptiness of ragingambition and the fallout of the drift toward conservative politics and values. «
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