Nicholas Shakespeare

Divinely decadent

Mary S. Lovell’s account the sad, seedy socialites of the Côte d’Azur is as shallow as the poolside tittle-tattle it salivates over

  • The Riviera Set: 1920–1960 The Golden Years of Glamour and Excess

    Mary S. Lovell

    Little Brown, pp. 434

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