PositiveThe Wall Street JournalIt is difficult to go wrong when writing of questionable behavior and wretched excess in Florida, a fact that is borne out yet again in Christopher Knowlton’s colorful Bubble in the Sun, a wide-ranging treatment of the ill-fated South Florida land boom of the 1920s ... the truly complex roles here are Douglas, Merrick and Mizner, the last a singularly talented artist whose relationship with his troubled brother Wilson is, in Mr. Knowlton’s expert telling, worth the price of admission.
