Description A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR " A] poignant addition to the literature of moneyed glamour and its inevitable tarnish and decay...like something out of Fitzgerald or Waugh."-- The New Yorker A parable for the new age of inequality: part family history, part detective story, part hiStory of a vanishing class, and a vividly compelling exploration of the degree to which an inheritance--financial, cultural, genetic--conspired in on.
Description A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR " A] poignant addition to the literature of moneyed glamour and its inevitable tarnish and decay...like something out of Fitzgerald or Waugh."-- The New Yorker A parable for the new age of inequality: part family history, part detective story, part hiStory of a vanishing class, and a vividly compelling exploration of the degree to which an inheritance--financial, cultural, genetic--conspired in on
