Claire McMillan. Simon & Schuster, $25 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4516-4047-2
McMillan’s debut novel, inspired by Edith Wharton’s House of Mirth, is a hard-edged look at the vacuous, insipid elite of modern-day Cleveland, Ohio. Ellie Hart, back home after rehab and divorce, quickly falls into her old ways, charming men in her
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Claire McMillan. Touchstone, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-1-5011-6504-7
In 2009, Cornelia “Nell” Quincy Merrihew’s great-aunt Loulou, who raised Nell’s mother, has passed away, and Nell finds herself in the company of an eccentric gaggle of Quincys, old-money Ohioans that her mother mostly avoided. She’s been made...
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Claire McMillan. Atria, $28 (288p) ISBN 978-1-66800-655-9
McMillan (Gilded Age) chronicles the artistic evolution of surrealist painter Remedios Varo in her enchanting and intricately crafted latest. In October 1939, Varo is living in Paris with her lover, the poet Benjamin Péret. Some in Péret’s circle...
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