An heir to a vast New York fortune, sees showgirl Ann Arden on the floor, it's love at first sight. Horrirfying Alice Grenville--the indomitable family matriarch. Of course they marries her. Ann wants desperately to be accepted by high society and become the well-bred woman of her fantasies. But a gunshot one rainy night propels Ann into a notorious spotlight--as the two Mrs. Grenvilles enter into a conspiracy of silence that will bind them together for as long as they live. I love irony, don't you. ( )

L'Ann, una bellesa, enamora l'hereu d'una família de Nova York que la rebutja per ser d'orígen humil. Ella però lluita per fer-se un lloc en els cercles als que pertany el seu marit.
El problema és que el seu matrimoni no funciona, i després d'una discussió, ella el mata.
Ben escrit, revela un món ben desconegut per mi, el món qde les elits econòmiques americanes i europees. M'ha impressionat, sobretot, que estigui basat en fets reals.
Un altre Asteroide, un altre plaer. ( )

I read Dominick Dunne's "The Two Mrs. Greenvilles" years ago, but since then it has continuously affected how I view society. I read the novel in early high school, and the New York's high society Social Register that appears throughout the book seems so relevant to any microcosm of society, much less society as a whole. I loved the story and the fantastic articulation of Ann's decent into madness, but the affect that the Social Register had on the characters has affected me heavily ever since. Of course, in the average world there is no tangible list of popularity and status like that, but that only makes it scarier when the same mentality is evident in almost any portion of society. Besides that, and the thoughts that it has provoked over the years, the story itself is great to me. The pacing is odd at some points, but I think it works itself out in the end. All in all, it is one of my favorites, and I was sad when I first finished the book and had to move on. ( )

I've been a fan of Dominick Dunne since I first read this book at least 15 years ago. No other author writes about the power and privileges of the extremely weathly quite like he did. Although most of his books are fiction, there are key elements of actual events behind the characters and stories. ( )

A well-written story of complex family relations and conspiracy ( )