Title: What Remains Pdf A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love
Author: Carole Radziwill
Published Date: 2007-06-05
Page: 272
"A moving testimony to the tenuous nature of love and life." -- USA Today"Stunning...Radziwill gets at the essence of what matters -- friendship, compassion, destiny." -- Oprah Winfrey, O, the oprah Magazine"A riveting and heartbreaking journey." -- Jeannette Walls, author of The Glass Castle"A stunning memoir of love and loss...Carole Radziwill is a natural storyteller." -- O, The Oprah Magazine"One of the best memoirs...a small masterpiece...devastating and beautifully written." -- New York Post"Powerfully affecting...a highly compelling read." -- Vogue"Bittersweet and tender." -- The New York Times Book Review Carole Radziwill worked as an award-winning journalist with ABC News for fifteen years. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller What Remains, the novel A Widow's Guide to Sex and Dating, and she stars on the Bravo reality show The Real Housewives of New York.
What Remains is a vivid and haunting memoir about a girl from a working-class town who becomes an award-winning television producer and marries a prince, Anthony Radziwill. Carole grew up in a small suburb with a large, eccentric cast of characters. At nineteen, she struck out for New York City to find a different life. Her career at ABC News led her to the refugee camps of Cambodia, to a bunker in Tel Aviv, and to the scene of the Menendez murders. Her marriage led her into the old world of European nobility and the newer world of American aristocracy.
What Remains begins with loss and returns to loss. A small plane plunges into the ocean carrying John F. Kennedy Jr., Anthony’s cousin, and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Carole’s closest friend. Three weeks later Anthony dies of cancer. With unflinching honesty and a journalist’s keen eye, Carole Radziwill explores the enduring ties of family, the complexities of marriage, the importance of friendship, and the challenges of self-invention. Beautifully written, What Remains “gets at the essence of what matters,” wrote Oprah Winfrey. “Friendship, compassion, destiny.”
Real Housewife goes through Real Hell When I first ran across Carole Radziwill she was just another self-promoter on Real Housewives of New York - they all have some product they're pushing, whether it's wine, toaster ovens, or bottles of diet alcohol. Carole was billed as a writer so that meant books.I'll admit though, I became curious. She was on the way to London to pick up her husband's ashes and she talked about her experiences on the show. I'm widowed as well and I became curious. She'd made some cracks about "widow is the new virgin" which was pretty obnoxious but her feelings on camera seemed real.Her memoir showed a different picture than the "all work and no play makes me a happy girl" tv persona. She'd grown up hardscrabble, in a large family that sounded both loving and difficult. Her incredible drive came through in every sentence, and while it took her far, it must have been incredibly painful to live with. She clearlly wanted to be at the top and center of the world as she saw it: as a journalist, a writer, a woman, and a social being. And why not? She'd seen it on television and she went for it -- and even got it.She writes movingly of her husband's cancer treatment and how they coped. However the relationship that she writes of most beautifully and movingly was of her friendship with Carolyn Bessette. There was clearly a bond between these two girls who'd grown up so differently from their husbands but it was more than that. The Carolyn Bessette that most of us knew about was a cardboard figure, a cariacature, courtesy of the media, who'd known how to play hardball with the nation's most eligible bachelor and who summoned Martha Stewart to teach her to cook (I read it in the New York Post so it must be true). Carole's Carolyn was a beautiful, rare person who understood suffering immediately and knew how to help with humor, love and compassion.Carole makes the loss feel immedate and real - the fateful plane accident succeeded a few weeks later by the death of her husband. She'd lost her entire world.And yet she has prevailed and written this book. Is it great literature? No? It doesn't need to be. It's simply a reminder that anything can happen to anyone at any time, and that the picture of the rich and famous we see online and in the press is only that - a picture and not the whole story.It's a very interesting book and if you are dealing with any sort of loss, well, hopefully it's helpful. I found it to be so.What a beautiful, easy writing style she has Having watched Carole on the Real Housewives, I was interested n this book from the get go, but it far exceeded my hopes and expectations. What a beautiful, easy writing style she has. I was completely enthralled by every page, each story and loved her even more after learning of the difficulties life has handed her. She is a true testament to the fact that fame, money and notoriety do not exclude a person from heartache and pain. I rarely share books anymore, but this one has been purchased, read and shared by many of my friends, upon my recommendation. They all loved it, whether or not they knew of Radziwill ahead of time. Can't wait to read all her books.
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