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The Social Graces

by Renée Rosen
Hillary Huber
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The USA Today Bestseller!
Named one of 2021’s Most Anticipated Historical Novels by Oprah Daily ∙ SheReads ∙ Frolic ∙ BookReporter ∙ and more...
The author of Park Avenue Summer throws back the curtain on one of the most remarkable feuds in history: Alva Vanderbilt and the Mrs. Astor's notorious battle for control of New York society during the Gilded Age.
1876. In the glittering world of Manhattan's upper crust, women are valued by their pedigree, dowry, and, most importantly, connections. They have few rights and even less independence—what they do have is society. The more celebrated the hostess, the more powerful the woman. And none is more powerful than Caroline Astor—the Mrs. Astor.
But times are changing.
Alva Vanderbilt has recently married into one of America's richest families. But what good is dizzying wealth when society refuses to acknowledge you? Alva, who knows what it is to have nothing, will do whatever it takes to have everything.
Sweeping three decades and based on true events, this is the mesmerizing story of two fascinating, complicated women going head to head, behaving badly, and discovering what’s truly at stake.

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    April 20, 2021

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      • ISBN: 9780593347287
      • File size: 345806 KB
      • Duration: 12:00:25

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      In Manhattan's Golden Age, power was the name of the game, and no one played it better than two remarkable women: Alva Vanderbilt and Caroline Astor. Performing both women, narrator Hillary Huber effects vocal changes that are so subtle that she almost disappears. In intermittent chapters we hear the snide comments and self-serving speculations of Society, wonderfully delivered by narrator Saskia Maarleveld. The Astors were Old Money who considered the Vanderbilts to be nouveau riche. After Mrs. Astor deliberately snubs Alva Vanderbilt, Alva determines to unseat the "Queen of Society." Huber highlights their spiteful behavior toward each other, but she also allows their better angels to emerge, showing how each became less involved with feuds and f�tes and more involved with philanthropy. This is engaging, witty listening. S.J.H. © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine

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