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The Astor Orphan

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Availability:In StockContributor:Alexandra AldrichPublish date:2014-04-08Pages:272
Language:EnglishPublisher:Ecco PressISBN-13:9780062207951ISBN-10:62207954UPC:9780062207951Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, Rich & Famous, WomenSize:8.00 x 5.20 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SCTMTPFN3R

The Astor Orphan is an unflinching debut memoir by a direct descendant of John Jacob Astor, Alexandra Aldrich.

She brilliantly tells the story of her eccentric, fractured family; her 1980s childhood of bohemian neglect in the squalid attic of Rokeby, the family's Hudson Valley Mansion; and her brave escape from the clan. Aldrich reaches back to the Gilded Age when the Astor legacy began to come undone, leaving the Aldrich branch of the family penniless and squabbling over what was left.

Illustrated with black-and-white photographs that bring this faded world into focus, The Astor Orphan is written with the grit of The Glass Castle and set amid the aristocratic decay of Grey Gardens.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Ecco PressISBN-13:9780062207951ISBN-10:62207954UPC:9780062207951Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, Rich & Famous, WomenSize:8.00 x 5.20 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SCTMTPFN3R
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Alexandra Aldrich lived at Rokeby, the house at the heart of this story, until she left to attend boarding school at the age of fourteen. She later moved to Poland, where she studied violin and history, and then back to the United States, where she taught high school English and converted to Orthodox Judaism.

Publisher: Ecco Press

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