The Architect of Desire by Susannah Lessard

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The Architect of Desire by Susannah Lessard

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Zusammenfassung

Lessard's great-grandfather was Stanford White, one of America's leading architects at the turn of the century. This is the story of the extraordinary family in which the author grew up and reveals the full truth behind White's murder. Originally published in 1997 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson.

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The Architect of Desire by Susannah Lessard

In this extraordinary story the author digs and digs until she finds the whole story. Along the way she discovers that not only was her great-grandfather murdered by the husband of Evelyn Nesbitt, a showgirl at the time, who was enraged with jealously, only to be acquitted on the grounds of insanity, but that the repercussions of this event and of her great-grandfather's behaviour on the rest of the family and its subsequent generations was devastating. Throughout the gripping narrative snippets of information about Stanford are woven into the incredible tale of the author's own upbringing and the whole family. By the end the story of the murder and its sordid circumstances are revealed. A beautifully written and extraordinary powerful book.

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ISBN 13 9780297819400
ISBN 10 0297819402
Titel The Architect of Desire
Autor Susannah Lessard
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Bindungsart Hardback
Verlag Orion Publishing Co
Erscheinungsjahr 1997-03-10
Seitenanzahl 352
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