![]() ![]() Jay Mackintosh is the classic great-soul-in-a-prison-of-his-own-making, a poor little rich Brit who as a teenager is sent off to his grandparents in coal-mining country while his parents parade about with their next mates. ![]() A wishfully poetic pastiche of magical realism and travelogue-by-surrogate, it may lure the more extreme romantics into sun-drugged suspense. Joanne Harris's Blackberry Wine is a classic of a beach book-which is to say, you have been warned. ![]() Usually intensely ambitious, sweepingly sentimental, historically panoramic, or just down and dirty, summer novels provide an intellectual escapism designed to mirror the gleeful surrender of responsibility that a oil-slicked flop on the sands requires. Ah, the summer novel, the literary vice that must hold serious publishers to their other virtues the rest of the year. ![]()
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