The Mansions of Limbo

2012-02-22 Literary Collections

Author : Dominick Dunne
Release : 2012-02-22
Genre : Literary Collections
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Book Synopsis The Mansions of Limbo by : Dominick Dunne

Download or read book The Mansions of Limbo written by Dominick Dunne. This book was released on 2012-02-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author Dominick Dunne, who chronicles the escapades, excesses, and eccentricities of high society for Vanity Fair, offers fifteen provocative portraits of some of the most luminous figures of the decade . . . profiles of the movie legend who remains the only divorced wife of a U.S. president; the pretty singing star who fell in love with a notorious mobster; the brilliant photographer who took Dunne's picture weeks before succumbing to AIDS . . . sketches that detail the lavish wedding-that-never-was between an heiress and a counterfeit prince; the incarceration of a high-flying financier; and the brutal slaying of a film mogul and his sife, allegedly by their own two sons. Filled with pathos and wit and the twenty-four-carat insight of a society insider, The Mansions of Limbo offers a peek into a rarified world there nothing is ever enough.

Fatal Charms

2012-11-07 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Dominick Dunne
Release : 2012-11-07
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Fatal Charms by : Dominick Dunne

Download or read book Fatal Charms written by Dominick Dunne. This book was released on 2012-11-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dominick Dunne has met them all--stars and slugs, criminals and victims, the innocent and the hideously guilty. From posh Park Avenue duplexes to the extravagant mansions of Beverly Hills, from tasteful London town houses to the wild excesses of million-dollar European retreats, here are the movers and shakers--and the people who pretend to be. Among colorful profiles and revealing glimpses of Elizabeth Taylor, Claus von Bülow, Gloria Vanderbilt, and Aaron Spelling, discover who dumped an heiress the night before the wedding to run off with the best man . . . what happens when the ex-husband of a movie legend becomes president . . . why a beautiful singer fell in with the mob . . . and, in Dunne's most personal story, how a lying murderer and a limelight-loving judge denied justice to his family after his daughter's life was brutally destroyed. Filled with pathos and wit, insight and sass, this candid, controversial volume gives you an extraordinary peek into the rarefied world of the rich, the royal, and the ruined. For Dunne is the man who knows all their secrets--and now those secrets are out.

Fatal Charms and The Mansions of Limbo

1999-03-09 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Dominick Dunne
Release : 1999-03-09
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Fatal Charms and The Mansions of Limbo by : Dominick Dunne

Download or read book Fatal Charms and The Mansions of Limbo written by Dominick Dunne. This book was released on 1999-03-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dominick Dunne has met them all--stars and slugs, criminals and victims, the innocent and the hideously guilty--and now his two provocative collections of Vanity Fair portraits are in one irresistible volume. From posh Park Avenue duplexes to the extravagant mansions of Beverly Hills, from tasteful London town houses to the wild excesses of million-dollar European retreats, here are the movers and shakers--and the people who pretend to be. Among colorful profiles and revealing glimpses of Elizabeth Taylor, Claus von Bülow, Gloria Vanderbilt, and Aaron Spelling, discover who dumped an heiress the night before the wedding to run off with the best man . . . what happens when the ex-husband of a movie legend becomes president . . . why a beautiful singer fell in with the mob . . . and, in Dunne's most personal story, how a lying murderer and a limelight-loving judge denied justice to his family after his daughter's life was brutally destroyed. Filled with pathos and wit, insight and sass, this candid, controversial volume gives you an extraordinary peek into the rarefied world of the rich, the royal, and the ruined. For Dunne is the man who knows all their secrets--and now those secrets are out.

Another City, Not My Own

2012-02-08 Fiction

Author : Dominick Dunne
Release : 2012-02-08
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 099/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Another City, Not My Own written by Dominick Dunne. This book was released on 2012-02-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the Trial of the Century as only Dominick Dunne can write it. Told from the point of view of one of Dunne's most familiar fictional characters-Gus Bailey-Another City, Not My Own tells how Gus, the movers and shakers of Los Angeles, and the city itself are drawn into the vortex of the O.J. Simpson trial. We have met Gus Bailey in previous novels by Dominick Dunne. He is a writer and journalist, father of a murdered child, and chronicler of justice-served or denied-as it relates to the rich and famous. Now back in Los Angeles, a city that once adored him and later shunned him, Gus is caught up in what soon becomes a national obsession. Using real names and places, Dunne interweaves the story of the trial with the personal trials Gus endures as he faces his own mortality. By day, Gus is at the courthouse, the confidant of the Goldman and Simpson families, the lawyers, the journalists, the hangers-on, even the judge; at night he is the honored guest at the most dazzling gatherings in town as everyone-from Kirk Douglas to Heidi Fleiss, from Elizabeth Taylor to Nancy Reagan-delights in the latest news from the corridors of the courthouse. Another City, Not My Own does what no other book on this sensational case has been able to do because of Dominick Dunne's unique ability to probe the sensibilities of participants and observers. This book illuminates the meaning of guilt and innocence in America today. A vivid, revealing achievement, Another City, Not My Own is Dominick Dunne at his best.

The Mansions of Limbo

2009-04-02 Fiction

Author : Joseph Roccasalvo
Release : 2009-04-02
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 318/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Mansions of Limbo by : Joseph Roccasalvo

Download or read book The Mansions of Limbo written by Joseph Roccasalvo. This book was released on 2009-04-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of stories about people who are almost happy, stuck in a kind of beatitude that does not beatify. They seemed doomed to pursue happiness in marginal places only to find that bliss is doled out in measured amounts. Hankering for satisfaction in a shifting world, they live lives of unquiet desperation: a connoisseur of oriental culture erotically smitten by a Japanese goldfish; a specialist in classics pursuing a student whose profile matches one on a Roman coin, itself the image of his dead son; identical twins whose loss of their brothers draws them together through an obituary ad; a pope whose heart transplant has him making strange, post-operative choices; a satiric theologian whose wit earns him a place on the Index of forbidden books; an Abyssinian cat who passes for a Coptic Christian. The premise of each story begins as wildly implausible, proves arguable until the conclusion becomes incontestable. The characters may be stuck, but “better a mansion in limbo,” they argue “than a high-rise in heaven.” By refusing to say what is bad or good, the last story leaves it to circumstance to assess the outcome. It seems to say that we all struggle with divided lives, engaging on earth in a shuttle diplomacy between limbo and heaven.

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