num_pages: 345
description: Now, best-selling author Dominick Dunne, who chronicles the escapades, excesses, and eccentricities of high society for Vanity Fair , offers fifteen provocative portraits of some of the most luminous figures of the decade . . . profiles of the movie legend who remains the only divorced wife of a U.S. president; the pretty singing star who fell in love with a notorious mobster; the brilliant photographer who took Dunne's picture weeks before succumbing to AIDS . . . sketches that detail the lavish wedding-that-never-war between an heiress and a counterfeit prince; the incarceration of a high-flying financier; and the brutal slaying of a film mogul and his sife, allegedly by their own two sons.  Filled with pathos and wit and the twenty-four-carat insight of a society insider, The Mansions Of Limbo offers a peek into a rarified world there nothing is ever enough.
language: English
title: Mansions of Limbo, The
titlecomplete: Mansions of Limbo, The
genres: Nonfiction, True Crime, Essays, Biography
ratings_count: 368
publisher: Bantam