![]() irresistibly knowing humor and delightful central characters. "True love will find a way, even among the status-obsessed and filthy rich. Kwan is in fine form, gleefully name-dropping luxury brands and socialites as he spins a heartfelt, satirical tale that observes the price of fame, fortune and following your heart." "A deliciously fun romp from Capri to Manhattan and East Hampton. ![]() In Kwan's hands, the classically white, British tale's setting gets an update from the early 1900s to the 2010s, trading in a cast of characters from England's stuffy upper crust for one of lavish, jet-setting Asian socialites." ![]() "Kwan's latest novel Sex and Vanity is a retelling of E. "Kevin Kwan's new book is his most decadent yet." 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. 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. 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. 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. Get Sex and Vanity (Hardcover) by Kevin Kwan and other contemporary fiction books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines. "Your mother is Chinese so it's no surprise you'd be attracted to someone like him," Charlotte teases. 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. 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. 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: the WASPY fiancé of her family's dreams and George Zao, the man she is desperately trying to avoid falling in love with.
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