The Memory Book of Starr Faithfull

The Memory Book of Starr Faithfull

Author: Gloria Vanderbilt

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13:

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The unsolved mystery of Starr Faithfull, a 1930s heiress. After her body washed up on a beach, police found a diary containing passages of erotic lovemaking when she was 11 with her 45-year-old cousin, a mayor of Boston. By the author of Never Say Goodbye.


A Mother's Story

A Mother's Story

Author: Gloria Vanderbilt

Publisher: N A L Trade

Published: 1997-05-01

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9780452278226

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Looking back on her own traumatic childhood and the early death of her husband, the author discusses her anguish over the suicide of her twenty-four-year-old son and her struggle to cope with the pain and grief over the death of her child


The Passing of Starr Faithfull

The Passing of Starr Faithfull

Author: Jonathan Goodman

Publisher: Kent State University Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780873385411

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This work, winner of the Crime Writers' Association's Gold Dagger Award, provides an account of the international scandal and media activity surrounding the death of Starr Faithfull in 1931. Granted access to the police dossier, the author arrives at an unexpected yet credible conclusion.


It Seemed Important at the Time

It Seemed Important at the Time

Author: Gloria Vanderbilt

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2008-09-09

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 1439137242

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An elegant, witty, frank, touching, and deeply personal account of the loves both great and fleeting in the life of one of America's most celebrated and fabled women. Born to great wealth yet kept a virtual prisoner by the custody battle that raged between her proper aunt and her self-absorbed, beautiful mother, Gloria Vanderbilt grew up in a special world. Stunningly beautiful herself, yet insecure and with a touch of wildness, she set out at a very early age to find romance. And find it she did. There were love affairs with Howard Hughes, Bill Paley, and Frank Sinatra, to name a few, and one-night stands, which she writes about with delicacy and humor, including one with the young Marlon Brando. There were marriages to men as diverse as Pat De Cicco, who abused her; the legendary conductor Leopold Stokowski, who kept his innermost secrets from her; film director Sidney Lumet; and finally writer Wyatt Cooper, the love of her life. Now, in an irresistible memoir that is at once ruthlessly forthright, supremely stylish, full of fascinating details, and deeply touching, Gloria Vanderbilt writes at last about the subject on which she has hitherto been silent: the men in her life, why she loved them, and what each affair or marriage meant to her. This is the candid and captivating account of a life that has kept gossip writers speculating for years, as well as Gloria's own intimate description of growing up, living, marrying, and loving in the glare of the limelight and becoming, despite a family as famous and wealthy as America has ever produced, not only her own person but an artist, a designer, a businesswoman, and a writer of rare distinction.


Don't Try This at Home

Don't Try This at Home

Author: Dave Navarro

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2012-10-09

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 006204527X

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Step into the booth. Check your judgments at the curtain. Close your eyes. Listen: you can hear the voices of the visitors who sat here before you: some of the most twisted, drug-addled, deviant, lonely, lost, brilliant characters ever to be caught on film. What do you have to offer the booth?


Some Unknown Person

Some Unknown Person

Author: Sandra Scoppettone

Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub

Published: 1995-10-18

Total Pages: 375

ISBN-13: 9780786702855

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Starr Faithful was seduced at age 11 by a 45-year-old man, and their relationship lasted nine years. By her 20th year, she is an alcoholic, addicted to pills, and is sexually compulsive. One day she is found dead on the beach. Some claim suicide, others murder, but her death is still unsolved. Here is the chilling story of Starr Faithful's erotic life and mysterious death.


Obsession

Obsession

Author: Gloria Vanderbilt

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2009-06-23

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 0061887072

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The marriages of desire . . . From the multitalented and versatile Gloria Vanderbilt comes a passionate, sensual, witty, and puzzling tale of erotic obsession, beauty, and revenge, told in tandem by two women obsessed with the same man—and, ultimately, with each other. Talbot Bingham is a renowned architectural genius who, with his formidable wife, Priscilla, creates an architectural community. When he dies unexpectedly in the middle of their tenth wedding anniversary celebration, the devastated Priscilla is left keeper of the flame of Talbot's genius. Going through her husband's archives, she comes unexpectedly upon a pile of neatly tied letters, and the shocking secret of her husband's intimate life—a discovery that shatters the foundation of her soul and spirit. Obsession explores the mysteries of the human heart and the nature of sexuality and obsession, provoking questions about whom we choose to love, and why. The reader is left to decide if the other woman represents another facet of Priscilla, or if Priscilla her-self has invented the other woman who completed the world her husband so recently inhabited?


Spy

Spy

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1995-02

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13:

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Smart. Funny. Fearless."It's pretty safe to say that Spy was the most influential magazine of the 1980s. It might have remade New York's cultural landscape; it definitely changed the whole tone of magazine journalism. It was cruel, brilliant, beautifully written and perfectly designed, and feared by all. There's no magazine I know of that's so continually referenced, held up as a benchmark, and whose demise is so lamented" --Dave Eggers. "It's a piece of garbage" --Donald Trump.


The Rainbow Comes and Goes

The Rainbow Comes and Goes

Author: Anderson Cooper

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2017-01-31

Total Pages: 167

ISBN-13: 0062674595

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#1 New York Times Bestseller A touching and intimate correspondence between Anderson Cooper and his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, offering timeless wisdom and a revealing glimpse into their lives The Rainbow Comes and Goes is a charming, intimate and fascinating collection of correspondence between broadcaster and #1 New York Times bestselling author Anderson Cooper and his mother, the celebrated Gloria Vanderbilt. Anderson Cooper’s intensely busy career as a journalist for CNN and CBS’ 60 Minutes affords him little time to spend with his ninety-one year old mother. After she briefly fell ill, he and Gloria began a conversation through e-mail unlike any they had ever had before —a correspondence of surprising honesty and depth in which they discussed their lives, the things that matter to them and what they still want to learn about each other. Both a son’s love letter to his mother in her final years and an unconventional mother’s life lessons for her grown son, The Rainbow Comes and Goes offers a rare window into their close relationship and fascinating lives. In these often hilarious and touching exchanges, they share their most private thoughts and the hard-earned truths they’ve learned along the way. Throughout, their distinctive personalities shine through—Anderson’s darker outlook on the world is a brilliant contrast to his mother’s idealism and unwavering optimism. An appealing blend of memoir and inspirational advice, The Rainbow Comes and Goes is a beautiful and affectionate celebration of the profound and universal bond between a parent and child, and, like Tuesdays with Morrie, a thoughtful reflection on life and love, reminding us of the precious knowledge and insight that remains to be shared, no matter what age we are.