![]() ![]() Carter's sprawling, diffuse ''The Emperor of Ocean Park'' is not quite like any novel in the entire history of seven-figure advances, presold movie deals, and huge first printings (were they crossing their fingers for Oprah? You bet), and for that, its author, a respected Yale law professor and public intellectual making his fiction debut, merits praise.Ĭarter's novel is actually two books in one (at 654 dense pages, that may be understating it): One is a Scott Turow-style family mystery in which a stolid, tightly wound professor wrestles with a disintegrating marriage to an ambitious lawyer while exploring the possibly suspicious death of his father, a moderate jurist who turned rightward after being nominated to the Supreme Court and rejected in semi-disgrace. ![]() (Entertainment Weekly) - Whatever its faults, Stephen L. ![]()
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