Phil in SF quoted The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Sympathizer is the 2015 debut novel by Vietnamese American professor Viet Thanh Nguyen. It …
That sly old sybarite was well aware of the importance of the erotic to the political, wooing the ladies as much as the politicians in his bid for French assistance to the American revolution.
new vocabulary: sybarite
A person who is self-indulgent in their fondness for sensuous luxury
I'm enjoying this book so much I missed my Muni stop and had to ride a stop in the opposite direction.
