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What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love
What Remains A Memoir of Fate Friendship and Love
Author: Carole Radziwill
Carole Radziwill's vivid and haunting New York Times bestseller begins with loss and returns to loss. A summer that was meant to bring four friends together in the final weeks of her husband Anthony's life brought instead the kind of tragedy that breaks into ordinary days in a heartbeat, when the small plane carrying Anthony's cousin John Kenned...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781416531265
ISBN-10: 1416531262
Publication Date: 7/18/2006
Pages: 416
Rating:
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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3.9 stars, based on 46 ratings
Publisher: Pocket Star
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette
Members Wishing: 1
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reviewed What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love on + 39 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 7
Very compelling. Grabs your interest from the first page. This book relates events that occur within such a short time frame that should leave the average person with the inability to get out of bed, much less write a book. However, the story is told with such grace and style. A very elegant retelling of such great tragedy that does not leave the reader wallowing in grief.
my2sense avatar reviewed What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love on + 16 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 4
I saw the author on Oprah and was so impressed with her eloquence that I read this book before it was out in paperback, something I rarely do. It was interesting to read the background of a story we all knew too well the outcome (JFK Jr.'s plane crash). It was moving and honest, not a "cash-in" celebrity memoir. It had to be therapeutic for the author to write it. I thought she did an excellent job sharing her point of view of the tragedy, an account of her husband's illness and the true character of her loyal friend Carolyn. A dignified glimpse of a husband, his cousin and wife, all of whom just happened to belong to a famous family.
heartinthehighlands avatar reviewed What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love on + 54 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 4
This was a very good book. We are all a bit curious about the lives of the Kennedys and this book was a very good one to read as there is nothing sensational about it. And it was written from the viewpoint of a 'commoner'. Radziwill married into our 'American royalty', in marrying John Kennedy's cousin. The behind the scenes glimpse into their friendship and Kennedy's final days is very interesting without making the reader feel he is intruding or prying. Radziwill is a very good writer. She writes very poignantly about her marriage and her husband's death. I was glad no one was home when I finished it, so that I could just let the tears flow. But it wasn't a depressing story - just a very moving one.
reviewed What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love on + 16 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 4
I was very touched by this book's author. I saw Carole Radziwill on an Oprah show some time ago and saw a passionate woman with a very personal story. At the end of the book, I wanted to know more about Carole and what has happened in her life since.
pshound avatar reviewed What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love on
Helpful Score: 2
An interesting read, not overly sentimental but giving insight into the lives of these 4 interesting people living in the headlines - a glimpse behind the headlines. Kept me reading and made me care about them in a way the newspapers never did.
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reviewed What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love on + 11 more book reviews
I am surprised that I enjoyed this book as much as I did. The author has a wonderful ability to share herself with the reader in a way that brings you in without all that fluff and goo that sometimes happens with this type of book. I would reread this one over and over. When I finished I found that these people who live in a world so different than mine love, laugh and cry like everyone else. What this lady lost in such a short time would bury anyone and yet she was able to eventually share it all. Hopefully, the sharing allowed her to find peace and contentment.
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Very honest portrayal of Ms. Radzwill's life and the tragic loss of her husband and best friends.
reviewed What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love on + 25 more book reviews
A well-written memoir of Carole's feelings, responses and reactions upon marrying Anthony Radziwill, and immediately finding out that he has been diagnosed with a recurrence of cancer, which originated as testicular cancer. She recounts their friendship with John and Carolyn Kennedy, and the double blow it was to her when both of them were killed in a place disappearance over the ocean, and shortly afterward, her husband dies. Draws you into very human and understandable feelings, and tells of the personal side of John and carolyn's friendship. I loved this book. Universal message, yet with the added fillip of entering into the "Camelot" we all became a part of in the 60's.


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