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Savage Grace : The True Story of Fatal Relations in a Rich and Famous American Family by Steven M. L. Aronson and Natalie Robins (2008, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherTouchstone
ISBN-101416571108
ISBN-139781416571100
eBay Product ID (ePID)63195200
Product Key Features
Book TitleSavage Grace : the True Story of Fatal Relations in a Rich and Famous American Family
Number of Pages512 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2008
TopicRich & Famous, Murder / General, General, Criminals & Outlaws
IllustratorYes
GenreTrue Crime, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorSteven M. L. Aronson, Natalie Robins
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.3 in
Item Weight17.5 Oz
Item Length8.4 in
Item Width5.5 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
Reviews"Jet-set expatriates in a murder case -- how fast we turn the pages. Savage Grace has to be the best oral history to come out since Edie ." -- Norman Mailer, "Overwhelmingly compelling.... This tale of aberrant Beautiful People is horrific and potent." -- Boston Herald, "A classic...a chilling wedding of "Mommie Dearest" and "Long Day's Journey into Night,"" -- "The Washington Post", "An epic portrait of a family.... The Baekelands, on a collision course with disaster, typify the American dream gone sour.... A sobering and sordid story, with the incestuous mother and son as its stars." -- The Milwaukee Journal, "Fascinating...A family saga with plot twists worthy of Dynasty or perhaps just Tennessee Williams -- it has a mythic quality that echoes Greek tragedy." -- The New York Times, "A classic...a chilling wedding of Mommie Dearest and Long Day's Journey into Night ." - The Washington Post, "A story of spectacular decadence -- of money, madness, and matricide....The cast of brilliant characters includes James Jones, William Styron, Patricia Neal, Alastair Reid, Brendan Gill and Francine du Plessix Gray....Seldom has there been so devastating an exposure of consequences, for the most sophisticated people, of failure in the simplest duties of love." -- William F. Buckley, Jr., "Jet-set expatriates in a murder case -- how fast we turn the pages. Savage Grace has to be the best oral history to come out since Edie." -- Norman Mailer, "Jet-set expatriates in a murder case -- how fast we turn the pages. "Savage Grace" has to be the best oral history to come out since Edie." -- Norman Mailer, "Fascinating...A family saga with plot twists worthy ofDynastyor perhaps just Tennessee Williams -- it has a mythic quality that echoes Greek tragedy." --The New York Times, "The sizzling, spellbinding story of the rich and powerful Baekeland clan, who owed their money to Bakelite, the original plastic. A snake pit of love triangles, sexual betrayal, and incest, culminating in the crime of crimes, matricide. Features a dazzling cross section of society, literature, and the arts." -- Daily News (New York), "A classic...a chilling wedding of Mommie Dearest and Long Day's Journey into Night ." -- The Washington Post, "A classic...a chilling wedding ofMommie DearestandLong Day's Journey into Night." --The Washington Post, Fascinating...A family saga with plot twists worthy of Dynasty or perhaps just Tennessee Williams -- it has a mythic quality that echoes Greek tragedy." -- The New York Times, "The true and harrowing story of an Upper East Side New York family whose cultivation of taste, pursuit of social distinction, and fashionable expatriatism led its members to drugs, to apparent incest, to murder, and to suicide." -- E. L. Doctorow, "Fascinating...A family saga with plot twists worthy of "Dynasty" or perhaps just Tennessee Williams -- it has a mythic quality that echoes Greek tragedy." -- "The New York Times"
Table Of ContentPart I: London 1. The Crime of Crimes 2. In Custody 3. Awaiting Trial 4. The Trial Part II: Broadmoor 1. The Material of a Thousand Uses 2. The Grand Dukedom 3. Mischief in the Blood 4. Mother's Milk 5. Fun and Games 6. Ruined Royalty 7. Aspiring and Persevering 8. Possessions 9. Calling It Quits 10. Cruising 11. Snapping Back 12. Striking Out Part III: New York 1. Repatriation 2. Reorientation 3. Attack Part IV: Rikers Island 1. July 27-October 31, 1980 2. November 1-December 16, 1980 3. December 17, 1980-January 14, 1981 4. January 15-March 19, 1981 5. March 20, 1981: 12:00 a.m.-4:39 p.m. 6. March 20, 1981: 4:40 p.m.-11:59 p.m. 7. The Final Report Biographical Notes Acknowledgments
Edition DescriptionMovie Tie-In,Media tie-in
SynopsisA spellbinding tale of money and madness, incest and matricide, Savage Grace is the saga of Brooks Baekeland, heir to the Bakelite plastics fortune; his beautiful wife, Barbara; and their handsome, gentle son, Tony, who destroyed the whole family in a violent chain of events. Savage Grace unfolds against a glamorous international background (New York, London, Paris, Italy, Spain); features a nonpareil cast of characters (including Salvador Dalí, James Jones, the Astors, the Vanderbilts, and European nobility); and tells the doomed Baekelands' story through remarkably candid interviews and private letters and diaries, not to mention confidential hospital, State Department, and prison documents. A true-crime classic, it exposes the envied lives of the rich and beautiful, and brilliantly illuminates the darkest corners of the American Dream., A spellbinding tale of money and madness, incest and matricide, "Savage Grace" is the saga of Brooks Baekeland, heir to the Bakelite plastics fortune; his beautiful wife, Barbara; and their handsome, gentle son, Tony, who destroyed the whole family in a violent chain of events."Savage Grace" unfolds against a glamorous international background (New York, London, Paris, Italy, Spain); features a nonpareil cast of characters (including Salvador Dali, James Jones, the Astors, the Vanderbilts, and European nobility); and tells the doomed Baekelands' story through remarkably candid interviews and private letters and diaries, not to mention confidential hospital, State Department, and prison documents. A true-crime classic, it exposes the envied lives of the rich and beautiful, and brilliantly illuminates the darkest corners of the American Dream., "Savage Grace"--soon to be a major motion picture--tells the epic story of the Baekelands, the rich and beautiful heirs to the Bakelite plastics fortune whose glamorous life belies the family's shocking secrets that result in incest, murder, and suicide. Illustrated., A spellbinding tale of money and madness, incest and matricide, Savage Grace is the saga of Brooks Baekeland, heir to the Bakelite plastics fortune; his beautiful wife, Barbara; and their handsome, gentle son, Tony, who destroyed the whole family in a violent chain of events. Savage Grace unfolds against a glamorous international background (New York, London, Paris, Italy, Spain); features a nonpareil cast of characters (including Salvador Dal , James Jones, the Astors, the Vanderbilts, and European nobility); and tells the doomed Baekelands' story through remarkably candid interviews and private letters and diaries, not to mention confidential hospital, State Department, and prison documents. A true-crime classic, it exposes the envied lives of the rich and beautiful, and brilliantly illuminates the darkest corners of the American Dream.
