Down the Shore

An exhilarating debut novel of reinvention, friendship, and ambition?from the Jersey Shore to Scotland Driven by a cast of young men and women living in an age of riotous prosperity, Stan Parish's Down the Shore is an unflinching, unforgettable novel of youth and excess. Smart, handsome, and weeks away from earning a diploma from a prestigious East Coast boarding school, Tom Alison has it all within his grasp, until he gets busted selling drugs. His dreams of an Ivy League education and a job on Wall Street now shattered, Tom escapes to the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, where he soon discovers a world shaped by even more powerful forces of greed and ambition than the one he left behind. A deft, gripping, and highly lauded debut, Parish reminds us that not even an ocean can separate us from family, our friends, or our past.