The Misadventures of Oliver Booth: Life in the Lap of Luxury

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Next Generation Indie Book Award Winner (General Fiction/Novel & First Novel) Third Place Grand Prize (Fiction) Best Book Award Winner (Best New Fiction) Finalist 2009 Benjamin Franklin Awards Humor/Comedy/Satire category Eric Hoffer Award Finalist (da Vinci Eye) National Indie Excellence Award Finalist (Humor) New York Book Festival Honorable Mention (Fiction) Oliver Booth wants nothing more than to join the ranks of Palm Beachs high society. But with his arrogant personality garish wardrobe and incompetent stewardship of an antique shop filled with gaudy reproductions he doesnt have a chance. Olivers luck takes a turnabout when the society doyenne Margaret Van Buren sends him and his assistant Bernard to Paris on a shopping spree to furnish her new estate. What ensues is a series of hilarious Voltaire-esque misadventures as Oliver bumbles his way through the milieu of the elite. A satirical look at the lengths some people will go to in order to enter the insular circle of the privileged Davids Desmonds novel is a witty glimpse into a world few of us know. Praise for The Misadventures of Oliver Booth: David Desmond has written a hilarious tale based on his insiders knowledge of life in Palm Beach and Paris. It should be a big success. --Donald Trump Can we talk? The Misadventures of Oliver Booth is filled with intimate details about the you-know-whos doing you-know-what in Palm Beach and Paris. Youre going to love it! Its a fast and fun read. --Joan Rivers