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Title: Dominick way over-Dunne
Review: There is a place for light and gossipy books, especially if they are well written and entertaining. This one is neither well written or entertaining. For a non-fiction book, the author's depth of inquiry, presentation, and the conclusions he draws, are inexecusably shallow. Given the rich bounty of events, people, and relationships with which he had to work, there was clearly a far more fertile and substantive harvest left on the vines than what was ultimately brought to market. And that is truly unfortunate. For a better written non-fiction book on Napa/Sonoma, I would recommend James Conaway's Napa: The Story of an American Eden.
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