Sex and Vanity
from the bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians
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- $15.99
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
PRE-ORDER THE NEW NOVEL BY KEVIN KWAN, LIES AND WEDDINGS: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lies-Weddings-Kevin-Kwan/dp/1529152844
THE ICONIC AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING PHENOMENON CRAZY RICH ASIANS RETURNS WITH THE GLITTERING TALE OF A YOUNG WOMAN WHO FINDS HERSELF TORN BETWEEN TWO MEN.
'Your perfect summer read' Daily Mail
'Delightful' Independent
'Laugh-out-loud funny' Sunday Mirror
When Lucie Tang Churchill meets George Zao at a lavish wedding in Capri, she can't stand him. She can't stand that he gallantly offers to trade hotel rooms with her so she can have a sea view, that he knows more about the island than she does, and worst of all, that he kisses her in the darkness of the ancient ruins. What would her Mayflower-descended, Wall Street-wealthy family think of him? But years later, when Lucie is weekending with her fiancé in East Hampton, George unexpectedly appears and Lucie must decide - does she follow her head or her heart?
A gloriously decadent homage to A Room with a View, Sex and Vanity is a glittering modern love story and a brilliantly funny comedy of manners set between two cultures.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Get ready for another glamorous romantic novel from the bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians. Lucille Church is part of the posh jet-setting elite. She went to all the best schools and is a fixture at all the hottest parties. So she would never date George Zao. After all, he’s…well, Asian—and not a cool, hip, bi-racial Asian-American like she is. But whether Lucille is partying it up in Capri or the Hamptons, George just keeps showing up, reminding Lucille just how kind, gracious, gorgeous and smart he is. Would she ever do something as provincial and stereotypical as falling in love with the “perfect” Asian man? We were swept up by the will-they-or-won’t-they tension of Lucille and George’s romance and by the sumptuous depictions of lavish clothes and extravagant accommodations that we’ve come to expect from Kevin Kwan. Thanks, once again, for the entertaining and escapist ride.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Kwan follows up his Crazy Rich Asians trilogy with an intoxicating, breezy update of E.M. Forster's A Room with a View. Lucie Tang Churchill, 19, a privileged "hapa" (she is half Chinese, half WASP) attends her richer friend Isabel's wedding in Capri. After Lucie meets Isabel's cousin George Zao, a rich, handsome, Chinese-Australian surfer, she becomes a "bundle of conflicting emotions," repulsed by her attraction to the "brooding weirdo took himself much too seriously." Still, they hook up, at risk of jeopardizing Lucie's reputation as an eligible bride. Four years later, Lucie and George's paths cross in New York, only now Lucie is engaged to Cecil Pike. However, Lucy can't get George out of her mind, and she is flummoxed by his kindness. When Lucy, George, and Cecil attend a film screening featuring a sex scene that reminds her of what she did with George in Capri, Lucie doubles down on suppressing her true desires. Kwan exploits the Forster frame for clever references including Merchant and Ivory and provides amusing footnotes. Kwan also relishes describing lavish meals and haute couture clothing, as well as Isabel's decadent wedding and Cecil's imaginative, over-the-top proposal. There are moments both catty and witty, but this delectable comedy of manners the literary equivalent of white truffle and caviar pizza is still pizza.
Customer Reviews
Wow.. Loved this book
Such a great read, loved all the characters..
Could not put it down.
Conspicuous consumption galore
This book is 95% conspicuous consumption, name dropping galore.
To make matters worse the plot and characters are lifted straight out of another book, A Room With a View.
Not original. Nor tolerable reading.
2 stars instead of 1 for the gorgeous Italian scenery that I enjoyed being taken to with many luscious scene descriptions.