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Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Story of Huguette Clark and the Loss of One of the World´s Greatest Fortunes
Paul Clark Newell
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Description for Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Story of Huguette Clark and the Loss of One of the World´s Greatest Fortunes
Paperback. In the tradition of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, an extraordinary Dickensian story of wealth and eccentricity. Num Pages: 496 pages, 73 b&w integrated and 3x8pp colour photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; 3JMC; BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 164 x 39. Weight in Grams: 828.
Empty Mansions is a rich mystery of wealth and loss, connecting the Gilded Age opulence of nineteenth-century America with a twenty-first-century battle over a $300 million inheritance. At its heart is a reclusive heiress named Huguette Clark, a woman so secretive that, at the time of her death at age 104, no new photograph of her had been seen in decades. Though she owned palatial homes in California, New York, and Connecticut, why had she lived for twenty years in a simple hospital room, despite being in excellent health? Why were her valuables being sold off? Was she in control ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782394761
SKU
9781782394761
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99-1
About Paul Clark Newell
Bill Dedman introduced the public to heiress Huguette Clark and her empty mansions through his compelling series of narratives for NBC, which became the most popular feature in the history of its news website, topping 110 million page views. He received the 1989 Pulitzer Prize in investigative reporting while writing for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and has written for The New ... Read more
Reviews for Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Story of Huguette Clark and the Loss of One of the World´s Greatest Fortunes
An evocative and rollicking read, part social history, part hothouse mystery, part grand guignol.
The Daily Beast
Empty Mansions is a dazzlement and a wonder... This is an enchanting journey into the mysteries of the mind, a true-to-life exploration of strangeness and delight.
Pat Conroy Empty Mansions reveals this mysterious family in sumptuous detail.
John Berendt ... Read more
The Daily Beast
Empty Mansions is a dazzlement and a wonder... This is an enchanting journey into the mysteries of the mind, a true-to-life exploration of strangeness and delight.
Pat Conroy Empty Mansions reveals this mysterious family in sumptuous detail.
John Berendt ... Read more