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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Crown Pub
Publication date
January 1, 1987
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780517564523
ISBN-10
0517564521
Availability§
Out of Print
Original list price
$4.99
§As reported by publisher
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: "The Boswell of the blue bloods."--San  Francisco Examiner.
"One of the snappiest  writers around."--Liz Smith, New York  Daily News.
From the author of the  best-selling People Like Us and  The Two Mrs. Grenviles comes this  unvarnished look at the gilded world of the real-life  rich and famous. Here are the highly colorful and  highly provocative look at the gilded world of the  real-life rich of famous. Here are the highly  colorful and highly provocative close-up interviews  Dominick Dunne has written for Vanity  Fair. In them, Dunne tells all about  today's creme de la creme as only as insider can tell  it. Here is his engaging profile of the  everlasting regal Elizabeth Taylor; a bizarre encounter with  Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos exiled in Hawaii; a  revealing, behind-the-scenes portrait of the great  poseur Claus von Bulow; an inquiry into the squalid  life and mysterious death of Alfred Bloomingdale's  mistress, Vicki Morgan; Dunne's moving account of  his daughter's violent death and the man who got  away with her murder; as well as revealing glimpses  of Ivan Boesky, Ava Gardner, Diane Keaton, Gloria  Vanderbilt, Candy and Aaron Spelling, and  others-plus a look inside the exclusive Mortimer's  restaurant and the real Palm Beach. Sassy and stirring,  candid and controversial, Fatal  Charms is a startling expose of charm-in all its  guises-both fatal and benign.
"One of the snappiest  writers around."--Liz Smith, New York  Daily News.
From the author of the  best-selling People Like Us and  The Two Mrs. Grenviles comes this  unvarnished look at the gilded world of the real-life  rich and famous. Here are the highly colorful and  highly provocative look at the gilded world of the  real-life rich of famous. Here are the highly  colorful and highly provocative close-up interviews  Dominick Dunne has written for Vanity  Fair. In them, Dunne tells all about  today's creme de la creme as only as insider can tell  it. Here is his engaging profile of the  everlasting regal Elizabeth Taylor; a bizarre encounter with  Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos exiled in Hawaii; a  revealing, behind-the-scenes portrait of the great  poseur Claus von Bulow; an inquiry into the squalid  life and mysterious death of Alfred Bloomingdale's  mistress, Vicki Morgan; Dunne's moving account of  his daughter's violent death and the man who got  away with her murder; as well as revealing glimpses  of Ivan Boesky, Ava Gardner, Diane Keaton, Gloria  Vanderbilt, Candy and Aaron Spelling, and  others-plus a look inside the exclusive Mortimer's  restaurant and the real Palm Beach. Sassy and stirring,  candid and controversial, Fatal  Charms is a startling expose of charm-in all its  guises-both fatal and benign.
Editions
Paperback
Reissue edition from Bantam Books (December 1, 1996); titled "Fatal Charms and Other Tales of Today"
9780553269369 | details & prices | 4.25 × 6.75 × 0.75 in. | 0.30 lbs | List price $6.99
About: Focusing on the social elite, the author presents subtle tales of justice received and denied, including the celebrated Claus von Bulow case, an account of the murder of the author's own daughter in the essay 'Justice,' and other glimpses of the real worl
About: Focusing on the social elite, the author presents subtle tales of justice received and denied, including the celebrated Claus von Bulow case, an account of the murder of the author's own daughter in the essay 'Justice,' and other glimpses of the real worl
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