From the Terrace
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Used classic novel
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I once asked Agnes Nixon, the creator of All My Children and other legendary daytime serials, how she became so good at plotting them. She replied, “I am a very good eavesdropper.”
I suspect O’Hara was, too. His 1959 epic (900 pages!) about a social-climbing, status-mad banker and the fashionable coterie of vipers he navigates to attain success at any cost is dipped in old-money style and privilege masking an ever-rotting core.
It’s packed with the one thing any great beach read needs: people keeping secrets who will do anything to protect them.
From Michael's list on beach reads from midcentury America.
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