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ISBN:	1250043964 (ISBN13: 9781250043962)
Edition Language:	English

The Last Good Paradise Hardcover | Pages: 320 pages

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Title	:	The Last Good Paradise
Author	:	Tatjana Soli
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 320 pages
Published	:	February 10th 2015 by St. Martin's Press (first published January 21st 2015)
Categories	:	Fiction. Contemporary. Literary Fiction. Travel. Drama. Womens Fiction. Chick Lit

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From the bestselling author of The Lotus Eaters and The Forgetting Tree comes a novel set on an island resort, where guests attempting to flee their troubles realize they can’t escape who they are.

On a small, unnamed coral atoll in the South Pacific, a group of troubled dreamers must face the possibility that the hopes they’ve labored after so single-mindedly might not lead them to the happiness they feel they were promised.

Ann and Richard, an aspiring, Los Angeles power couple, are already sensing the cracks in their version of the American dream when their life unexpectedly implodes, leading them to brashly run away from home to a Robinson Crusoe idyll.

Dex Cooper, lead singer of the rock band, Prospero, is facing his own slide from greatness, experimenting with artistic asceticism while accompanied by his sexy, young, and increasingly entrepreneurial muse, Wende.

Loren, the French owner of the resort sauvage, has made his own Gauguin-like retreat from the world years before, only to find that the modern world has become impossible to disconnect from.

Titi, descendent of Tahitian royalty, worker, and eventual inheritor of the resort, must fashion a vision of the island’s future that includes its indigenous people, while her partner, Cooked, is torn between anarchy and lust.

By turns funny and tragic, The Last Good Paradise explores our modern, complex and often, self-contradictory discontents, crafting an exhilarating story about our need to connect in an increasingly networked but isolating world.

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This one is totally different from her novel "The Lotus Eaters" and, I thought, a disappointment. Ann, a 38 year old attorney wants to quit law and have a baby. Her husband is a chef who is getting ready to open his own restaurant with a partner. The partner is irresponsible and in debt so badly that he ruins the business before it opens, and Ann and her husband take off to a pristine island with a money bag filled with illegally gotten money. There are a lot of relationship problems with and

Escaping Civilization , "living-off-the-grid", is often maddening, exhausting, and complicated. The castaways in "The Last Good Paradise", endure competing desires, revenge, and love. You'll take a journey, --from L.A. to a Polynesian remote resort -small island in the South Pacific--Cut off from Cell phones -electrical devices and social media. Innumerable Challenges!Quirky rhythms!Seductive & funny Several Twists & turns Epic storytelling--emotional intensity!Heroes and villains--

I initially enjoyed the book and felt like it was a perfect vacation read. The characters were interesting and I liked the premise. As it went on it just seemed that it was rushing along but going nowhere with repetitive dialogue that often didnt really make sense for the characters. It was unbelievable that basically every single character was having a simultaneous identity crisis and questioning every aspect of their lives and it became kind of exhausting to read. Pretty much every page

This book features a varied cast of characters on a remote, expensive tropical resort for different reasons. Ann and her husband Richard are fleeing possible bankruptcy. Richard and his friend/partner in opening a new restaurant have put themselves in debt to the wrong kind of people. Ann is burned out by her success as a cutthroat lawyer. The relationship has become strained due to the financial and emotional cost of trying to get pregnant.There is also a rock star and his muse, a Casanova

Soli's "The Lotus Eaters" is one of my all-time favorite books. So, "The Last Good Paradise" had big shoes to fill. It did not come anywhere close to the depth, character, and strength of story of "The Lotus Eaters". On its own, "Paradise" was mildly interesting.

Having loved Tatjana Soli's first novel, The Lotus Eaters, I have gone into her second and third novels with high expectations. Both times I have been disappointed.I was quickly bored at the beginning of this novel when Richard and Ann are introduced and their financial disaster is described. I hung on and became a little more interested when they arrived on the island and the group dynamic among all the characters began to develop. I thought Soli had some interesting things to say about how

Not bad, just personally didn't get that into it... But I think others might enjoy it more.