John Dugdale is the Guardian's associate media editor. One of his ten hottest highbrow books for the beach:Gravity’s Rainbow (1973) by Thomas Pynchon
A wartime Côte d’Azur holiday for Lieutenant Tyrone Slothrop is actually a means for the creepy British scientists observing the American to make him fall on the beach for a sexy Dutch spy (a giant octopus supposedly menacing her is part of this
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