Though Gina is diligent and hard-working, the lifestyle of a Hamptons have-not seems to have worn her down. Everyone Corey knew worked as a servant to some degree.”Įxhibit A is Gina - a Jack-of-all-trades helper for the Sheffields. Most of the adult locals drank a lot but still didn’t seem happy. “Nothing scared him more than the vision of spending his entire life right here. There are some vague thoughts of college, while a friend suggests forming a landscaping company together Corey has his doubts. Corey is a recent high school graduate, and his dilemma about what to do next with his life will be particularly familiar to the indigenous. Corey and his mother, Gina, work at the home of Leo Sheffield, a finance tycoon with a large estate in Southampton. With his debut, “The East End,” Jason Allen (a Hamptons native) gets close to assembling a novel that feels like the “real” Hamptons. Why is there so little notable literature written about the Hamptons? Judging by its appearance in fiction (and movies, for that matter), you’d think that everyone on the Island lives in a mansion near a roiling surf, fleet of Lamborghinis in the hangar, the swimming pool permanently adorned with bikini-clad beauties glassy-eyed from champagne and world-class cocaine.
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