{"product_id":"9781416572961","title":"Savage Grace : The True Story of Fatal Relations in a Rich and Famous American Family","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eSavage Grace\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Natalie Robins, Steven M.L Aronson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA spellbinding tale of money and madness, incest and matricide, \u003ci\u003eSavage Grace\u003c\/i\u003e is the saga of Brooks and Barbara Baekeland -- beautiful, rich, worldly -- and their handsome, gentle son, Tony.\u003c\/b\u003e Alternately neglected and smothered by his parents, he was finally driven to destroy the whole family in a violent chain of events. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSavage Grace\u003c\/i\u003e unfolds against a glamorous international background (New York, London, Paris, Italy, Spain); features a nonpareil cast of characters (including Salvador Dalí, James Jones, the Astors, the Vanderbilts, and European nobility); and tells the doomed Baekelands' story through remarkably candid interviews, private letters, and diaries, not to mention confidential hospital, State Department, and prison documents. A true-crime classic, it exposes the envied lives of the rich and beautiful, and brilliantly illuminates the darkest corners of the American Dream.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\"An American fable of enduring resonance...a macabre piece of Americana.\" -- \u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The true and harrowing story of an Upper East Side New York family whose cultivation of taste, pursuit of social distinction, and fashionable expatriatism led its members to drugs, to apparent incest, to murder, and to suicide.\" -- E. L. Doctorow\u003cbr\u003e\"Jet-set expatriates in a murder case -- how fast we turn the pages. \u003ci\u003eSavage Grace\u003c\/i\u003e has to be the best oral history to come out since \u003ci\u003eEdie\u003c\/i\u003e.\" -- Norman Mailer\u003cbr\u003eFascinating...A family saga with plot twists worthy of \u003ci\u003eDynasty\u003c\/i\u003e or perhaps just Tennessee Williams -- it has a mythic quality that echoes Greek tragedy.\" -- \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A classic...a chilling wedding of \u003ci\u003eMommie Dearest\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLong Day's Journey into Night\u003c\/i\u003e.\" - \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The sizzling, spellbinding story of the rich and powerful Baekeland clan, who owed their money to Bakelite, the original plastic. A snake pit of love triangles, sexual betrayal, and incest, culminating in the crime of crimes, matricide. Features a dazzling cross section of society, literature, and the arts.\" -- \u003ci\u003eDaily News\u003c\/i\u003e (New York)\u003cbr\u003e\"Overwhelmingly compelling.... This tale of aberrant Beautiful People is horrific and potent.\" -- \u003ci\u003eBoston Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An epic portrait of a family.... The Baekelands, on a collision course with disaster, typify the American dream gone sour.... A sobering and sordid story, with the incestuous mother and son as its stars.\" -- \u003ci\u003eThe Milwaukee Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A story of spectacular decadence -- of money, madness, and matricide....The cast of brilliant characters includes James Jones, William Styron, Patricia Neal, Alastair Reid, Brendan Gill and Francine du Plessix Gray....Seldom has there been so devastating an exposure of consequences, for the most sophisticated people, of failure in the simplest duties of love.\" -- William F. Buckley, Jr.\u003cbr\u003e\"The story is evoked with arresting detail...the power of horror.\" -- \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781416572961\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Touchstone","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40964280910030,"sku":"9781416572961","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/O_0a3ed200-11f6-46d7-b0a3-9a69cb28244e.jpg?v=1646432245","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781416572961","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}