Pike's Folly
Nathaniel Pike, a headstrong billionaire, is purchasing a piece of federal land in New Hampshireas White Mountains and turning it into a huge, inaccessible parking lot. Orbiting Pike and his aspirations is a cast of perfectly flawed eccentrics: Marlene, who is shy and vulnerable but also a budding exhibitionist; Stuart, Pikeas assistant, who is Marleneas husband and a failed writer; and Heath, who films Marleneas public nudity and turns her into an Internet star. In this grand tale of the folly of the modern world, Mike Heppner skewers the extravagance of wealth, and the class that grows up around that wealth, even as he casts a humane look at the people involved. From the Trade Paperback edition.Three thousand dollars wasna#39;t remotely in his price range, but hea#39;d done it anyway, and in the weeks since, hea#39;d joined the Panasonic online mailing list, sent in the lifetime warranty and read the sixty-eight-page ownera#39;s manual from cover toanbsp;...
| Title | : | Pike's Folly |
| Author | : | Mike Heppner |
| Publisher | : | Vintage - 2007-12-18 |
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