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Product Description From the author of A Brooklyn Story and one of USA TODAY’s celebrated “New Voices of 2011,” comes a new novel which exposes the over-the-top decadence—and corruption—of Wall Street’s elite.Hailed as one of USA Today’s New Voices for her 2011 literary debut, Brooklyn Story, Suzanne Corso brings back the “true female voice” (The New York Times) of aspiring author Samantha Bonti in this breathtaking companion novel. IT WAS THE DECADE OF BIG MONEY, BIG RISKS, BIG HAIR, AND BIG DREAMS . . . AND THERE WAS ONLY ONE BIG CITY WHERE IT COULD ALL HAPPEN Growing up in Brooklyn, Samantha Bonti knew the writer’s life she was meant to live waited across the bridge in Manhattan. Summoning the courage to break free from an abusive mobster boyfriend, Sam finally leaves Bensonhurst and begins her new life, working as a temp in a Wall Street brokerage firm. Quickly, she’s swept off her feet by Wall Street player Alec DeMarco, a man of boundless energy, appetites, desires, and the wealth to indulge it all. In a whirlwind courtship, Alec showers Sam with exquisite gifts, the city’s finest cuisine, spontaneous weekend getaways, and, most of all, the love and security a girl from an unstable Brooklyn upbringing craves. But when the party’s over—when Alec’s high-flying career turns litigious and the big money is left on the table—will love be enough to sustain them? With her dream of publishing her novel still very much alive, Sam can’t back down now; she must choose the life that’s most true to who she really is inside. From Booklist Samantha Bonti longs to escape her life of poverty in Brooklyn and live as a happily married, successful novelist in Manhattan. But an abusive, mobster-wannabe ex-boyfriend serving jail time finds ways to derail her aspirations. Fourteen years later, Samantha meets her dream man, wealthy Wall Street broker Alec DeMarco. Instantly smitten, Alec proceeds to court Samantha lavishly, and soon she is living the “suite life,” but she is unhappy. She doesn’t fit into his world, and her publishing goal is lost in the process. The story, drawn from Corso’s real life, focuses on the excessive Wall Street lifestyle and its effects on those who live it. Also in excess are descriptions of Alec’s massive presence and immense appetite. Samantha, unfortunately, comes across as passive, acted upon by outside circumstances rather than motivated from within, until the final chapters, when Alec’s empire crumbles. Some dramatic moments are lost, told in narrative rather than fleshed out in scenes. This follow-up novel to Corso’s Brooklyn Story (2011) reads like a tell-all about the seedy lifestyle of Wall Street’s elite. --Diane Holcomb Review "The Suite Life is the bright and darksides of the American dream. But imagine this dream being told by a fabulousfriend, the Scheherazade of Brooklyn. She can mesmerize with her story,wow you with details, and keep you on the edge of your chaise lounge or beachchair until the very last page. Suzanne Corso has written a dandy book!" -- Susan Isaacs(1)“The bright and dark sides of the Americandream by the Scheherazade of Brooklyn…Suzanne Corso mesmerizes with her story,wows you with details, and keeps you on the edge of your seat until the verylast page.” —Susan Isaacs -- Susan Isaacs, New York Times bestselling author About the Author Suzanne Corso is the author of Brooklyn Story and The Suite Life, as well as two feature film screenplays. She has also produced two documentaries and written one children’s book. She currently lives in New York City. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. The Suite Life New York City, 1996 In retrospect, I can’t imagine why I had never considered that Tony could reach all the way from his prison cell across the bridge and into that publisher’s office to continue controlling my life. I should have known better, but I was, after all, only nineteen and still naïve, despite everything I’d b
