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Ladataan... Too Much MoneyTekijä: Dominick Dunne
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. I loved it, loved it, loved it! I read in one sitting. Oh, Mr. Dunn's how sorely you will be missed! Bon voyage! ( ) The last book Dominick Dunne wrote before his death which is presaged by his alter ego narrator, Gus Bailey. Dunne assembles all his favorite New York society characters together for one more story about new money eclipsing old money and how people either adapt to changing times or get run over. Dunne's diary columns for Vanity Fair were the first thing I read in the magazine every month, and I loved his roman a clefs on New York life. A great read for a plane trip or a beach vacation Disappointing. I've always enjoyed Dominick Dunne's books but this one just wasn' t up to scratch. Maybe because he was battling cancer when he wrote it, maybe because whatever the manuscript he left behind had not been honed enough, we'll never know. I certainly think he was ill-served by his editor and publisher. The repetitive descriptions about the characters became embarrassing, just left in to pad out the text I suspect - in some cases whole phrases or sentences were repeated. If this is the only book by DD you've ever read, don't give up on him, try one of his others - The Two Mrs Grenvilles is a cracker.
Mr. Dunne left behind one last, stinging roman à clef. And he most assuredly used it to settle scores. At best, the book reads like an anachronism; at worst, it's insular and boring. When "Too Much Money" gets cooking in its final pages, it shows what Dunne could do when he heated up. Kuuluu näihin sarjoihinGus Bailey (3)
High society journalist Gus Bailey was sued for $11 million for a fake story he repeated on the radio concerning a powerful congressman and a missing young woman. The stress from the lawsuit makes it difficult to finish the novel he's writing about the suspicious death of billionaire Konstantin Zacharias. The convicted murderer is in jail but, Gus is not convinced they have the right person and Konstantin's wife will do anything to suppress the story. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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