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What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love
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A stunning, tragic memoir about John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, and his cousin Anthony Radziwill, by Radziwill's widow.
What Remains is a vivid and haunting memoir about a girl from a working-class town who becomes an award-winning television producer and marries a prince, Anthony Radziwill. Carole grew up in a small suburb with a large, eccentric cast of characters. At nineteen, she struck out for New York City to find a different life. Her career at ABC News led her to the refugee camps of Cambodia, to a bunker in Tel Aviv, and to the scene of the Menendez murders. Her marriage led her into the old world of European nobility and the newer world of American aristocracy.
What Remains begins with loss and returns to loss. A small plane plunges into the ocean carrying John F. Kennedy Jr., Anthony's cousin, and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Carole's closest friend. Three weeks later Anthony dies of cancer. With unflinching honesty and a journalist's keen eye, Carole Radziwill explores the enduring ties of family, the complexities of marriage, the importance of friendship, and the challenges of self-invention. Beautifully written, What Remains "gets at the essence of what matters," wrote Oprah Winfrey. "Friendship, compassion, destiny."
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Book Details
ISBN:
9780743277181
EAN:
9780743277181
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
272
Authors:
Carole Radziwill
Publisher:
Scribner Book Company
Published Date: 2007-05-06
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This book was a great read from star to finish and I wasn't expecting to relate so much to the emotional journey she went on. I couldn't put this book down till I was done and the tears dried.
Heartbreaking but very good. I remember when this happened we watched him grow up and it was very sad he died.
This book really spoke to me. It’s well written, poignant and heartfelt.
A story of love and grief told with total candor, with all it’s beauty and ugliness… allowing us readers a glimpse into who these famous people really were… and the fact that death and grief doesn’t spare anyone…. Very well written book!!
So incredibly well written. I could not put it down. I have read many biographies about JFK, Jr. about his tragic death and that of his wife and sister-in-law. This was about his cousin, Anthony. Another tragic death. I loved the writing even though I knew the ending. Intimate details of all their lives and of their deaths. Not to be missed.
