Writing style
Atmospheric · Descriptive · Direct
Miami
Literary fiction
- Print length
- 370 pagesBallantine Books, 1992
Description
Against Miami’s landscape of beaches, hotels, wealth, and nightlife, Pat Booth builds an ensemble novel around people drawn to glamour and the bargains required to keep it. Careers, romances, loyalties, and ambitions collide as private entanglements move through a public world obsessed with image. The city functions as more than a backdrop: its heat, speed, and sharp divisions between display and vulnerability intensify every choice. Rather than following a single quest, the novel shifts among intersecting lives, using melodrama and social observation to examine reinvention, appetite, and the instability beneath polished surfaces. Its central tension lies in the way aspiration transforms intimate relationships into contests over desire, status, and control.
Reading profile
About this profile
Collected’s assessment, not reader ratings. Complexity runs from 1 (least demanding) to 5 (most demanding).
- Writing
- How much attention the sentences and language require.
- Ideas
- How much interpretation or abstract reasoning the book asks of you.
- Structure
- How much you need to keep track of speakers, timelines and connections.
- Background knowledge
- Prior knowledge needed to follow the book, beyond what it explains.
- Emotional intensity
- Emotional pressure, from gentle (1) to intense (5). Separate from difficulty.
Pace
Brisk
Tone
Atmospheric · Romantic · Satirical · Tense
Structure
Braided
Focus
Atmosphere · Character · Relationships
Emotional intensity
3 / 5
Reading complexity
1–5 · higher means more demanding- Writing
- 2 / 5
- Ideas
- 3 / 5
- Structure
- 3 / 5
- Background knowledge
- 1 / 5
Themes
Book details
For the print edition listed above.
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780345381651
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