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A well-behaved woman : a novel of the Vanderbilts
Record details
- ISBN: 1427299196
- ISBN: 9781427299192
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (1 audio file (14hr., 20 min.)) : digital.
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electronic resource
electronic - Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: [United States] : Macmillan Audio, 2018.
- Distributor: Made available through hoopla
Content descriptions
Restrictions on Access Note: | Digital content provided by hoopla. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Barrie Kreinik. |
Summary, etc.: | This program includes a bonus interview with the author. A Well-Behaved Woman is the riveting audiobook about iron-willed Alva Vanderbilt and her illustrious family as they rule Gilded Age New York, from the New York Times bestselling author of Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald. Alva Smith, her southern family destitute after the Civil War, married into one of America's great Gilded Age dynasties: the newly wealthy but socially shunned Vanderbilts. Ignored by New York's old-money circles and determined to win respect, she designed and built 9 mansions, hosted grand balls, and arranged for her daughter to marry a duke. But Alva also defied convention for women of her time, asserting power within her marriage and becoming a leader in the women's suffrage movement. In A Well-Behaved Woman, Therese Anne Fowler paints a glittering world of enormous wealth contrasted against desperate poverty, of social ambition and social scorn, of friendship and betrayal, and an unforgettable story of a remarkable woman. Meet Alva Smith Vanderbilt Belmont, living proof that history is made by those who know the rules-and how to break them. |
System Details Note: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Subject: | Belmont, Alva 1853-1933 Fiction Vanderbilt family Fiction Socialites Fiction United States Social life and customs 1865-1918 Fiction |
Genre: | Biographical fiction. Historical fiction. |
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