Eleanor of Palm Beach
An enchanted life and tragic love in another world and time
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Book Details
Language :
Publication Date :
30/09/2002
Format :
Softcover
Dimensions :
5.5x8.5
Page Count :
145
ISBN :
9781401066284
Format :
Hardcover
Dimensions :
5.5x8.5
Page Count :
145
ISBN :
9781401066291
About the Book
A deeply touching personal history of life lived to the fullest in the transforming decades of the 1920s and ´30s. Poet, novelist, social beauty, loving wife and mother, Eleanor Chase shone her presence from glamorous Palm Beach to her native Oshkosh, Wisconsin, to New York´s and Europe´s literary and social circles. One world war had ended and another would soon erupt. The story of Eleanor and her beloved, handsome, Swiss-born architect-husband, Maurice Fatio, moves the heart and illlumines a time unique in America´s past.