The Last American Heiresses (eBook)

Stephen Greco (Autor)

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2025
496 Seiten
A John Scognamiglio Book (Verlag)
978-1-4967-4652-8 (ISBN)

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A dazzling novel that draws readers into the ultra-glamorous lives of legendary heiresses Doris Duke and Barbara Hutton, the public rivalry that defined them, and the secret bond that sustained them both, from the author of the acclaimed Such Good Friends.The press dubs them ';the Gold Dust twins.' Born within a week of one another in Manhattan in 1912, Doris Duke and Barbara Hutton both inherit unimaginable fortunes. By the time of their lavish coming-out balls, they are two of the richest women in the world. Barbara, heiress to the Woolworth millions, amasses seven husbands over her lifetime. Doris, meanwhile, has a sophistication and financial savvy that Barbara tries endlessly to emulate. When filmmaker Emma Radetsky begins researching her new documentary about prominent women and their jewelry collections, she's familiar with the lore surrounding both Doris and Barbarathe couture gowns, exotic homes, and romantic interludesincluding sequential marriages to the same notorious playboy. And of course, the priceless jewels they acquire as easily as candy. Yet delving into their backgrounds with the help of one of Doris's closest companions, Oliver Wendell Shaw, Emma encounters a deeper storyof a private game to manipulate the media, and a hidden, life-long kinship between two complex women who understood each other as no one else could. Interweaving past and present, filled with sumptuous details from an age of excess, Stephen Greco's novel is also a mesmerizing story about the nature of celebrity and the transformative power of friendship.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.2.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Historische Romane
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: 1930s new York • 1960s New York • Alison Pataki • Allison Pataki • Barbara Hutton • Cary Grant • celebrity gossip • C.W. Gortner, • debutantes • Doris Duke • Doris Duke:Barbara Hutton • Duchess of Windsor • Eduardo Tirella • Elizabeth Taylor • gay • gay icons • golddust twins • Great Depression • Heiresses • High Society • historical fiction • Homicide at Rough Point • Honolulu • LGBTQ • literary fiction • mae west • Manhattan • Marie Benedict • Melanie Benjamin • New York City • New York fiction • Peter Lance • Poor little rich girl • Shana Abe • Shana Abe` • Such Good Friends • tabloid press • Tangiers • the magnificent lives of marjorie post • Woolworth heiress • woolworths • woolworths heiress
• ISBN-10: 1-4967-4652-X / 149674652X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4967-4652-8 / 9781496746528