The Beneficiary: Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father

by Janny Scott

Book Overview

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR

A] poignant addition to the literature of moneyed glamour and its inevitable tarnish and decay...like something out of Fitzgerald or Waugh.--The New Yorker

A parable for the new age of inequality: part family history, part detective story, part history of a vanishing class, and a vividly compelling exploration of the degree to which an inheritance--financial, cultural, genetic--conspired...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 159463419X
• ISBN13: 9781594634192
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Riverhead Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.0"