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Sex and Vanity: A GMA Book Club Pick
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ISBN10: 0385546270
ISBN13: 9780385546270
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Published: Jun 30 2020
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.48
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.50 Depth: 9.60
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780385546270
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Published: Jun 30 2020
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.48
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.50 Depth: 9.60
Language: English
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - GMA BOOK CLUB PICK - The author of the international phenomenon Crazy Rich Asians takes us from Capri to NYC, where a young woman finds herself torn between two men--and two very different cultures.
Another riveting tale of privilege, culture and romance ... extravagant fashion and deceit, resulting in one truly modern love story. --CNN
Another riveting tale of privilege, culture and romance ... extravagant fashion and deceit, resulting in one truly modern love story. --CNN
On her very first morning on the jewel-like island of Capri, Lucie Churchill sets eyes on George Zao and she instantly can't stand him. She can't stand it when he gallantly offers to trade hotel rooms with her so that she can have a view of the Tyrrhenian Sea, she can't stand that he knows more about Casa Malaparte than she does, and she really can't stand it when he kisses her in the darkness of the ancient ruins of a Roman villa and they are caught by her snobbish, disapproving cousin Charlotte. The daughter of an American-born Chinese mother and a blue-blooded New York father, Lucie has always sublimated the Asian side of herself in favor of the white side, and she adamantly denies having feelings for George. But several years later, when George unexpectedly appears in East Hampton, where Lucie is weekending with her new fiancé, Lucie finds herself drawn to George again. Soon, Lucie is spinning a web of deceit that involves her family, her fiancé, the co-op board of her Fifth Avenue apartment building, and, ultimately, herself as she tries mightily to deny George entry into her world--and her heart. Moving between summer playgrounds of privilege, peppered with decadent food and extravagant fashion, Sex and Vanity is a truly modern love story, a daring homage to A Room with a View, and a brilliantly funny comedy of manners set between two cultures.
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