Melanie Benjamin writes of The Swans of Fifth Avenue, women who were the symbols of style and wealth in 1960s New York and their “True Heart,” author Truman Capote. This historical fiction is a character study of two lonely individuals and a period piece of the lifestyle of the very rich. Beautifull...
By: Melanie Benjamin ISBN: 9780345528698 Publisher: Random House/Ballantine Publication Date: 1/26/2016 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 5 Stars (Swans) A special thank you to Random House, NetGalley, and LibraryThing early reviewers for an ARC in exchange for an honest review. Best of both world...
I’ve long been fascinated by the brilliant mind of Truman Capote, both through his published literary work and through his personal appearances. I’ve always admired his intelligence. I knew he lived a flamboyant life and hobnobbed with celebrities, but I had never been interested in that part of Ca...
#TheSwansofFifthAvenue 5 Stars! Available 1/26/16 @RandomHouse @MelanieBen This is my second book by Melanie Benjamin and like the other, I absolutely loved it! I knew of Truman Capote and that he had written "In Cold Blood" and that he was a strange looking thing that sort of talked funny as I h...
I became aware of Truman Capote early on - I wrote my first term paper on Breakfast at Tiffany's, and off and on over the years I've been fascinated by the man and the mid 20th century era of the New York socialite. Had Babe Paley, Slim Keith, and Pam Churchill existed in this time as they did in th...
This year, 2015, marks the 150th Anniversary of 'Alice in Wonderland' by Lewis Carroll, which in this book, he is known by his real name, Charles Dodgson. This is fictionalized 'historical' account of Alice, before she became immortalized in the pages of book, and of her adult life thereafter. My en...
4 1/2 stars. This was a heartbreaking read but it was one of those books that I found myself drawn into and found it difficult to break myself away from when it was time to take the headphones off and return to reality. I have to admit, it has thrown me into a bit of a funk. Despite Alice's well to ...
"But oh my dear, I am tired of being Alice in Wonderland. Does it sound ungrateful?"Alice Liddell Hargreaves’s life has been a richly woven tapestry: As a young woman, wife, mother, and widow, she’s experienced intense passion, great privilege, and greater tragedy. But as she nears her eighty-first ...
The novel is very episodic, following the life of Lavinia Bump in chronological order. It lacks suspense, going from one incident on to the next. The Victorianesque first-person narrator gets in her own way much of the time, interrupting conversations to add comments to the reader, most of which are...
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