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Defoe, Daniel
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Fiction
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English
β 208 KB
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The beneficiary: fortune, misfortune, and the story of my father
β Scribed by Scott, Janny;Scott, Robert Montgomery
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group; Riverhead Books
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 765 KB
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Pennsylvania--Philadelphia., Philadelphia (Pa.
- ISBN
- 159463419X
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
A parable for the new age of inequality: part family history, part detective story, part history of a vanishing class, and a vividly compelling exploration of the degree to which an inheritance --financial, cultural, genetic--conspired in one person's self-destruction.
Land, houses, and money tumbled from one generation to the next on the eight-hundred-acre estate built by Scott's investment banker great-grandfather on Philadelphia's Main Line. There was an obligation to protect it, a license to enjoy it, a duty to pass it on--but it was impossible to know in advance how all that extraordinary good fortune might influence the choices made over a lifetime.
In this warmly felt tale of an American family's fortunes, journalist Janny Scott excavates the rarefied world that shaped her charming, unknowable father, Robert Montgomery Scott, and provides an incisive look at the weight of inheritance, the tenacity of addiction, and the power of buried...
β¦ Subjects
Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
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