Anna's review
Savage Grace: The True Story of Fatal Relations in a Rich and Famous American Family
by Natalie Robins, Steven M Aronson
Anna's review
Savage Grace: The True Story of Fatal Relations in a Rich and Famous American Family by Natalie Robins, Steven M Aronson
Anna's review
rating:
I don't know why I keep buying books like this. Well, I know WHY (rich people with problems are so fascinating, aren't they?), but maybe I can't justify it anymore. It's starting to feel too voyeuristic.
Anyway, the "characters" in this book are a real piece of work. The book follows a clear timeline, but has no real over-arching narrative; it's all told through quotations and personal letters and official documents. I think a clear narrative voice would have been useful, though - if for no other reason than to remind the reader of "who's who" (the number of friends and family members being quoted in the book is pretty large and I got several people mixed up over and over again). Still, letting everyone speak for themselves was pretty eye-opening, especially in the case of the father (who insisted that he wasn't interested in "society" life in the least, but was probably the biggest name-dropping snob of them all).
This book was just made into a...more
Anyway, the "characters" in this book are a real piece of work. The book follows a clear timeline, but has no real over-arching narrative; it's all told through quotations and personal letters and official documents. I think a clear narrative voice would have been useful, though - if for no other reason than to remind the reader of "who's who" (the number of friends and family members being quoted in the book is pretty large and I got several people mixed up over and over again). Still, letting everyone speak for themselves was pretty eye-opening, especially in the case of the father (who insisted that he wasn't interested in "society" life in the least, but was probably the biggest name-dropping snob of them all).
This book was just made into a...more
