The Mansions of Limbo

✍ Scribed by Dunne, Dominick

• Publisher: Bantam
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 287 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Retail

In a collection of his essays from Vanity Fair , the best-selling author reveals the life and times of the beautiful--and not-so-beautiful--people.

Review

"Like sitting in an exclusive retaurant, listening to a plummy voiced intimate of the rich and famous tell us all about their foibles and follies."--The Washington Post Book World

From the Publisher

Now, best-selling 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-war 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.

"Like sitting in an exclusive retaurant, listening to a plummy voiced intimate of the rich and famous tell us all about their foibles and follies."--The Washington Post Book World