{"product_id":"season-book-r-kessler-9780061098420","title":"The Season","description":"\u003cp\u003ePalm Beach is known around the world as the most wealthy, glamorous, opulent, decadent, self-indulgent, sinful spot on earth. With their beautiful 3.75 square-island constantly in the media glare, Palm Beachers protect their impossibly rich society from outside scrutiny with vigilant police, ubiquitous personal security staffs, and screens of tall hedges encircling every mansion. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo this bizarre suspicious, exclusive world, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author Ronald Kessler brought his charm, insight, and award-winning investigative skills, and came to know Palm Beach, its celebrated and powerful residents, and its exotic social rituals as no outside writer ever has. In this colorful, entertaining, and compulsively readable book. Kessler reveals the inside story of Palm Beach society as it moves languidly through the summer months, quickens in the fall, and shifts into frenetic high speed as the season begins in December, peaks in January and February, and continues into April. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen unimaginable wealth combines with unlimited leisure time oil an island barely three times the size of New York's Central Park, human foibles and desires, lust and greed, passion and avarice, become magnified and intensified. Like laboratory rats fed growth hormones, the 9,800 Palm Beach residents--87 percent of whom are millionaires--exhibit the most outlandish extremes of their breed. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo tell the story, Kessler follows four Palm Beachers through the season. These four characters--the reigning queen of Palm Beach society, the night manager of Palm Beach's trendiest bar, a gay walker who escorts wealthy women to balls, and a thirty--six-year-old gorgeous blonde who says she can't find a guy in Palm Beach--know practically everyone on the island and tell what goes on behind the scenes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInterweaving the yarns of these unfor-gettable figures with the lifestyle, history, scandals, lore, and rituals of a unique island of excess, \u003cem\u003eThe Season\u003c\/em\u003e creates a powerful, seamless, juicy narrative that no novelist could dream up.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50342843613457,"sku":"CIN0061098426A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50342847381777,"sku":"CIN0061098426G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0061098426.jpg?v=1750875515","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/season-book-r-kessler-9780061098420","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}