Word: pratesi
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...homey touches, Castlemartyr, managed by Schulze's West Paces Hotel Group, is nevertheless a getaway that most mortals can only dream of. The Pratesi Italian linens on the beds and 50-in. (130 cm) HDTVS in each room are there to remind you that the $4,400 you might spend each night still entitles you to some old-fashioned cosseting...
...husbands, a bewitching mother, a homosexual brother, a heterosexual near-blind brother, and an eleven-year-old daughter by magnificent, "fascinatingly brooding, darkly luminous" Renaissance Rocco. From Maxi's view at the top, Krantz scatters a lot of glitz: hot seawater bubble baths, iced buffalo-grass vodka, tarte Tatin, Pratesi sheets, Don Johnson, Le Cirque and the Bohemian Grove. But she never forgets the essentials: steamy dialogue, unexpurgated sex and the outside chance that some of her fictive creatures may actually exist. I'll Take Manhattan is not literature, but it is lively and, in its own way, moral...
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