Geoffrey O'Brien

The Fall of the House of Walworth (eBook, ePUB)

A Tale of Madness and Murder in Gilded Age America

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In the tradition of The Devil in the White City comes a spell-binding tale of madness and murder in a nineteenth century American dynasty

On June 3, 1873, a portly, fashionably dressed, middle-aged man calls the Sturtevant House and asks to see the tenant on the second floor. The bellman goes up and presents the visitor's card to the guest in room 267, returns promptly, and escorts the visitor upstairs. Before the bellman even reaches the lobby, four shots are fired in rapid succession.

Eighteen-year-old Frank Walworth descends the staircase and approaches the hotel clerk. He calmly inquires the location of the nearest police precinct and adds, "I have killed my father in my room, and I am going to surrender myself to the police."

So begins the fall of the Walworths, a Saratoga family that rose to prominence as part of the splendor of New York's aristocracy. In a single generation that appearance of stability and firm moral direction would be altered beyond recognition, replaced by the greed, corruption, and madness that had been festering in the family for decades.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Henry Holt and Co.
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781429989626
• Artikelnr.: 39960178

Autorenporträt

Geoffrey O'Brien is a poet who has also written on lm, pop music, opera, the Sixties counterculture, and the art of reading. His most recent books are The Fall of the House of Walworth (2010), Early Autumn (2010), and Stolen Glimpses, Captive Shadows: Writing on Film 2002-2012. He is editor-in-chief of The Library of America and contributes frequently to The New York Review of Books.