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In the writer of the Pulitzer Prize finalist You're Not Really A Stranger Here, a sensational, outstanding face of our contemporary gilded age. At one's heart of Marriage Atlantic lies a test of wills between a retired history teacher, Charlotte Graves—who has suddenly started to listen to her two puppies talking with her in the sounds of Cotton Mather and Malcolm X—and an ambitious young bank, Doug Fanning, who's creating an ostentatious estate on which was once Charlotte’s household property. Attracted in to the turmoil is Nate Larger, a struggling high school pupil who stirs strong emotions in both of these. What exists is the protection of custom, just a captivating tale of monetary energy, and the disturbances of wish these causes produce. With amazing accuracy and range, Marriage Atlantic provides a vision of the chaotic, nervous globe we’ve arrived at occupy.