Glitz (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Elmore Leonard
- First Published: 1985
- Type of Plot: Detective and mystery
- Time of Work: The 1980’s
- Setting: Puerto Rico and Atlantic City, New Jersey
- Principal Characters: Lieutenant Vincent Mora, Iris Ruiz, Teddy Magyk, Verna May Magyk, Linda Moon, Tommy Donovan, Nancy Donovan, Jackie Garbo, DeLeon “Moose” Johnson
- Genres: Long fiction, Mystery and detective literature
- Subjects: Crime or criminals, Police, Greed, Puerto Rico or Puerto Ricans, Materialism
- Locales: Atlantic City, NJ, Puerto Rico
The Novel
Glitz is a story about police, criminals, and the people who inhabit the demimonde in which police and criminals usually operate. It portrays the fashionable resorts of Puerto Rico as well as the island’s slums, where people live on rice and beans. It contrasts the glitzy new Atlantic City, built on greed and suckers’ money, with the decaying Atlantic City of the past, where seniors dread the bulldozers that tear paths for more and yet more gambling palaces.
Vincent Mora goes to Puerto Rico to recuperate from a wound received in a shootout with a...
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