6 Dazzling New Beach Reads (Plus 15 Classics)
Read them by the sea, by the pool, on the porch. Each one is secret
vacation inside your vacation.
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The Bonfire of The Vanities
By Tom Wolfe
704 pages;
Picador
What do you get when a philandering wall Street WASP accidentally hits a young black man with his Mercedes somewhere in the Bronx? In Wolfe's hands, you get a hilariously astute slice of social commentary—of gilded age excess, ego and maneuvering—with precious few innocents in sight. Irresistible. The Dylan's Candy bar of novels.
— Leigh Haber
Published 06/20/2014
