
Books: Big Beach
Blockbusters
Get them while they're hot - four sure-to-be best-sellers
by Nancy Wartik
IVY LEAGUE DIRT
The Student Body
BY JANE HARVARD
(VILLARD, $23)
If the authors of this campus-based
thriller (four Harvard alums writing under a pseudonym who conceived the book as a way to
pay off student loans) are to be believed, their august alma mater is a veritable hotbed
of kinky sex, crack-smoking administrators and dark intrigue. Harvard junior Toni Isaacs
is doing a story for the campus newspaper when she stumbles on a student prostitution
ring. As Toni pursues the truth, there's plenty of suspense -- plus gossipy observations
about college life and some surprisingly fine writing along the way.
RATING: * * * (Worth missing Ally McBeal
for)