The Astor Orphan: A Memoir
Alexandra Aldrich
ISBN 10: 0062207938 ISBN 13: 9780062207937
Verlag: Ecco, 2013
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Inhaltsangabe:
The Astor Orphan is an unflinching debut memoir by a direct descendant of John Jacob Astor, Alexandra Aldrich.
She brilliantly tells the story of her eccentric, fractured family; her 1980s childhood of bohemian neglect in the squalid attic of Rokeby, the family’s Hudson Valley Mansion; and her brave escape from the clan. Aldrich reaches back to the Gilded Age when the Astor legacy began to come undone, leaving the Aldrich branch of the family penniless and squabbling over what was left.
Illustrated with black-and-white photographs that bring this faded world into focus, The Astor Orphan is written with the grit of The Glass Castle and set amid the aristocratic decay of Grey Gardens.
Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:
Alexandra Aldrich lived at Rokeby, the house at the heart of this story, until she left to attend boarding school at the age of fourteen. She later moved to Poland, where she studied violin and history, and then back to the United States, where she taught high school English and converted to Orthodox Judaism.
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Bibliografische Details
Titel: The Astor Orphan: A Memoir
Verlag: Ecco
Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Good
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket